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Cohesion Breeds True Synergy

Aloha and welcome back!  It has been quite a long time since my last entry and, after having dealt with "real life" on a number of important occasions, I am looking forward to engaging you in thoughtful discussions once again. Lately, there have been examples, front and center in my professional life, where I have seen large opportunities missed.  Specific to my experience, these "cost" the company revenue in the sense that there was revenue that could have been earned but was not.  However, this could just as easily be a degradation of the professional credibility as a team (or member of a team), a lack of increase in operational efficiency (which does cost the company money in reality), etc.  So what is cohesion exactly? Dictionary.com states the definition as the following: cohesion [koh-hee-zhuh n],  noun - the act or state of cohering, uniting, or sticking together. That is "content free," but Wikipedia's summary of the topic is more hel