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Synercube: A Scientific Theory for Shaping Efficient Organizational Relationship

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In terms of system approach, any organization is a set of elements and their interconnections, which function as an integral whole (Katz and Kahn 1966). In order to maintain this wholeness, organizations need resources (information, energy, funds, personnel, materials, equipment, etc.) that can be gotten from outside and are necessary for the organization’s activity. While functioning, an organization transforms resources into results (product, goods, services, information, etc.) that are brought back to the outside environment, returning a profit. In turn, the profit allows getting new resources and resuming the transformational cycle. Thus, each and every organization is an open system that is constantly interacting with the outside environment (s. Fig. 2.1).

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    The term is one of the elements of the theory’s name, which is Synercube theory: syner—synergy, implying the group synergy described above; cube is a three-dimensional figure, representing three-factor description of organizational leadership.

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    Anatoly Zankovsky

  2. Synercube GmbH, Leverkusen, Germany

    Christiane von der Heiden

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Zankovsky, A., von der Heiden, C. (2016). Synercube: A Scientific Theory for Shaping Efficient Organizational Relationship. In: Leadership with Synercube. Springer Vieweg, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49052-5_2

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