Teddi Coutts
Teddi had always expected that retirement would be the time when she could concentrate on, and develop her artwork, but retirement was always something that would happen in the future and she hadn’t thought through how it might work out in practice or made any plans other than laying in stocks of materials whenever funds permitted.
Teddi Coutts
Teddi had always expected that retirement would be the time when she could concentrate on, and develop her artwork, but retirement was always something that would happen in the future and she hadn’t thought through how it might work out in practice or made any plans other than laying in stocks of materials whenever funds permitted.
Fateful Encounter
Mixed Media
39cm x 29cm
The word ‘synergy’ comes from the Greek, meaning ‘working together’ and was first used in 1647.
It is used more generally to refer to ‘the whole being greater than the sum of its parts’
In the 1990s, it was a management buzzword, popularised by Steven Covey in ‘The 7 habits of highly effective people’ and used to justify downsizing in business [and local government] by doing more with less: a mutually advantageous conjunction or compatibility of distinct business participants or elements such as resources or efforts.
