CHAPTER 9

Developing Positive Synergy

Daniela Ortiz

Developing strategies to create positive synergy within a team or organization entails asking from a managerial perspective, “What can be done to make the most out of the people who constitute an organization?” The search for positive synergy is also the search for efficient work processes. The way we resolve the problem of inefficiency in the use of the human factor will greatly depend on how crucial we consider the quality of human interactions to be in achieving corporate objectives. In this sense, positive synergy seems to be related to sustainability, especially if we consider the fact that the long-term performance of a company will greatly depend on the outcomes of work processes in which ...

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