Help Your Organization Achieve Synergy -- November 7-13 is Synergy Week International"

Synergy is the cooperative interaction among groups, especially among the acquired subsidiaries or merged parts of a corporation, that creates an enhanced combined effect. Synergy enables organizations to consistently achieve exponential outcomes through the optimal integration of all other resources.

Glen Rock, NJ (PRWEB) October 27, 2004 -- Synergy is the cooperative interaction among groups, especially among the acquired subsidiaries or merged parts of a corporation, that creates an enhanced combined effect. Synergy enables organizations to consistently achieve exponential outcomes through the optimal integration of all other resources.

November 7-13 is Synergy Week International" and a perfect time to evaluate the synergy within your organization. Organizations that have achieved a high level of synergy have done so by avoiding what author and business performance expert Pamela S. Harper calls strategic gridlock": the mysterious paralysis that occurs when persistent organizational problems snarl business performance. Harper states, Unfortunately, many organizations dont realize theyre experiencing gridlock because it can build so gradually that its often hard to spot until it reaches massive levels."

You dont want to wait to evaluate your organization until its too late and gridlock has already reached massive levels. That is why you need to take a proactive approach to preventing strategic gridlock within your organization. In her book, Preventing Strategic Gridlock: Leading Over, Under & Around Organizational Jams to Achieve High Performance Results (Cameo Publications, $19.95, ISBN 0-9715739-4-8), Harper helps company leaders avoid the hidden roadblocks that lead to gridlock. She has traced persistent organizational problems back to common but mistaken assumptions about a companys reality. Strategic gridlock is preventable when you fully consider all six of the guidelines and principles of organizational reality, which are represented by the acronym U.N.L.O.C.K.® As Harper explains, business leaders need to Understand the full challenge, Negotiate buy-in of key stakeholders, Locate cultural advancers and blockers, Organize relevant goals, priorities, and action plans, Communicate credibly, and Keep adjusting.

Harper advises that Using the U.N.L.O.C.K.® process will help your organization avoid strategic gridlock as well as provide you with a faster and smoother route to transform your business strategies and initiatives into high performance. Your lines of communication will be more open, and people will work better together. Avoid strategic gridlock, and you will see the positive effects of synergy within your organization."

Pamela S. Harper helps business leaders transform their strategies into high performance results by identifying seven roadblocks that stall success and the keys to unlock them. Founder and president of Business Advancement, Inc., Pam bases her in-depth knowledge of the impact of organizational issues on business growth on her 20 years of internal and external consulting to leaders of entrepreneurial, middle market, and Fortune 500 companies.

For more information or a review copy of Preventing Strategic Gridlock: Leading Over, Under & Around Organizational Jams to Achieve High Performance Results, please call 1-866-372-2636 or send an email to Amy@cameopublications.com.

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