The fundamental principle that people are interconnected, can also be worded as: “no man is an island.”
People who are interconnected and have a shared vision, purpose and alignment will have synergy, where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. This requires cooperation and leveraging each other’s strengths.
Since people are interconnected it flows that people are more important than things. The fact that people are more important than things support the principles mentioned by Ray Dalio:
- Separate the people from the problem.
- Focus on interests, not positions.
Being interconnected allows one to live by the motto: Live and let live.
Interconnection gives us a reputation to take care of, contributions to make and feedback to value.
Andreas A Landman
Green Octahedron Blogging 