{"id":229,"date":"2012-05-04T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/thoughts-on-the-synergist-by-les-mckeown\/"},"modified":"2012-05-04T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T07:56:00","slug":"thoughts-on-the-synergist-by-les-mckeown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/thoughts-on-the-synergist-by-les-mckeown\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on The Synergist by Les McKeown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very excited to share some thoughts on a new book titled, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Synergist-Lead-Predictable-Success\/dp\/0230120555\" target=\"_blank\">The Synergist: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success<\/a><\/em>&#0160;by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.predictablesuccess.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Les McKeown<\/a>. I must say the book is a must for anyone involved or interested in organizational development and teamwork. Mr. McKeown articulates a reliable way for groups to form and perform as a team. As someone who thinks the word team is as worn out as the word leadership, it&#39;s refreshing to read a thought leader who truly understands what the word means in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>I am biased in my fondness for this book because he described me, personally, in one of the chapters. It was rather haunting, but in a good way.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. McKeown has a vast background in working the land of organizational development. He applies this in a way that is understandable and relevant, regardless of your position\/role.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Here are some key take-aways I gained from the book:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Effective teams are made up of 4 different types (the visionary, the operator, the processor, and the synergist) of people.<\/li>\n<li>Every group and team comes to the table with a natural bent. The bent is neither good or bad, it&#39;s the human being being who they are.<\/li>\n<li>Evey organization is aligned for the outcomes it experiences.<\/li>\n<li>There is a life cycle for every team and organization. I found it interesting how choices drive so much of this.<\/li>\n<li>Many groups find themselves in a ditch due to their inability to see each player as a unique contributor.<\/li>\n<li>The synergist role (the person who brings clarity in an unbiased manner) is a sort of lynch-pin in every high performing team. You&#39;ll understand more when you read the book.<\/li>\n<li>Mr. McKeown uses real-world examples to drive his premise.&#0160;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This post is not long enough to give you all that the book delivers. But the book really is like guidebook. You owe it to yourself to check it out.&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very excited to share some thoughts on a new book titled, The Synergist: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success&#0160;by Les McKeown. I must say the book is a must for anyone involved or interested in organizational development and teamwork. Mr. McKeown articulates a reliable way for groups to form and perform as a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,18,6],"tags":[49,30,895,178,751,897,896,894],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-business-commentary","category-learning","tag-book-review","tag-books-2","tag-les-mckeown","tag-organizational-development","tag-team","tag-team-performance","tag-teams","tag-the-synergist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}