Location
Cocoa Beach, Florida
Start Date
3-4-1967 12:00 AM
Description
Any synergistic relationship results in accomplishment of objectives by each participant greater than individual effort, and total accomplishment otherwise impossible. There is nothing new about the synergistic relationship. We see it occasionally in nature, in family life, and in the field of marketing. In time of national emergency it flowers, and vast efforts are integrated to produce B-29s, atom bombs, space or oceanographic programs. In one sense synergy can be compared to alloying of metals where the resultant alloy has properties superior to the base metal or any of its additives. If the concept of synergy proves productive of stronger, improved, and more versatile material products, why cannot synergy be applied to education?
This paper will show that synergism works. It will provide some guidelines for a synergistic approach.
Now is the time to apply these synergistic principles to education in the missile and space industry. We have everything to gain and nothing to lose if we cut across company and institutional lines, on a voluntary basis, to examine all of the islands of synergistic success. Let us share those that appeal to us, and harness them to develop our only true national asset, our human resources.
Educational Synergism in the Space and Missile Industry
Cocoa Beach, Florida
Any synergistic relationship results in accomplishment of objectives by each participant greater than individual effort, and total accomplishment otherwise impossible. There is nothing new about the synergistic relationship. We see it occasionally in nature, in family life, and in the field of marketing. In time of national emergency it flowers, and vast efforts are integrated to produce B-29s, atom bombs, space or oceanographic programs. In one sense synergy can be compared to alloying of metals where the resultant alloy has properties superior to the base metal or any of its additives. If the concept of synergy proves productive of stronger, improved, and more versatile material products, why cannot synergy be applied to education?
This paper will show that synergism works. It will provide some guidelines for a synergistic approach.
Now is the time to apply these synergistic principles to education in the missile and space industry. We have everything to gain and nothing to lose if we cut across company and institutional lines, on a voluntary basis, to examine all of the islands of synergistic success. Let us share those that appeal to us, and harness them to develop our only true national asset, our human resources.
