Aug 30 2009
I Can’t Make Baby Myself!
I was in an MBA class when the lecturer asked us 1 + 1 = ?
She asked us to raise our hands if we thought it’s 2. To my surprise, half the class raised their hands. When asked who thought it’s more than 2, only a few hands were up!
Of course it was not a maths class. It’s a business class. I wonder whether the power of synergy has been undermined by many people. What two people can do together is more than the sum of what they can do individually.
Consider two colleagues who work on separate parts of the same proposal for a client. Each can come up with his or her own recommendation. But if they can work together and cross-check each other’s work, they can come up with better proposal for the client than if they produce it individually.
The same goes to individual students who prepare for exam. Instead of striving on their own, they can group together and discuss issues, questions and case studies, so that the new ideas generated are more than what they can come up with individually.
As for me, I can’t make a baby myself. Neither can my life partner make it herself. Nor can we make it individually, no matter how hard we try. We need to do it together! 
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