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How many times in the past year have I heard the word “synergy”? And of those times, how many were at home with my wife or out at a restaurant? I would guess that the ratio is something like 10:0, because like so many other management clichés or buzzwords, “synergy” lives only at the office. Things like “cooperation,” “give-and-take,” and “understanding” live at home. Why does this matter? Honestly, it probably doesn’t, but aren’t we all just a little overloaded with how many catchphrases come along? I recall having lunch with the CEO from one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of industrial carbon products a few years back. He said that there were three kinds of organizations in business: there were those that

Materials Technology and Management Seminar Clichés resist change, those that accept change, and those that seek change. He wanted his company to be the latter. It is assumed in there somewhere that CHANGE… is GOOD, but I digress. In the early 1900’s, the main use for oil in this country was for lighting. This application however, was quickly being supplanted by electrically energized lights, and things looked pretty bleak for the oil industry in the US. But then, out of the blue came a new application for oil and refined fuels: the automobile. Right around the time one application was dying, another came along and saved an industry. (The rise of the automobile practically wiped out the saddle and horseshoe businesses of course, as every change has consequences.)

In our business, we see change all the time. Sometimes it is legislative change, such as Acquisition Reform, other times it is simply a shift in thinking or technology. Most changes are for the