Synergy: the third alternative

Covey's published prerequisite for synergy: you have to actually value the other party's differences, not just tolerate them. The published claim: a tribe that values differences (in experience, age, background, training, personality) produces synergy reliably; a tribe that tolerates differences while privately wishing everyone agreed produces compromise at best. The Craft's brotherly love charge — meeting on the level across rank, age, and station — is, in Covey's language, the structural condition for synergistic work.