The document summarizes how synergizing helps meet the Public Victory. It provides an example of how Walt Disney and his team of animators revolutionized children's films by working together synergistically. No one person alone could have created iconic characters like Mickey Mouse, but by celebrating diversity, avoiding cliques and ignorance, and working as a cooperative team, they were able to achieve much more and help make Disney a success. Synergizing allows groups to build on each other's strengths and accomplish more together than alone.

1. Public Victory
By: Will Couch

2. Public Victory
The Public Victory consists of 3 habits: Think Win-Win, Seek First To
Understand Than To Be Understood, and Synergize. Think Win-Win means to be
able to think that everyone can win instead of just one person. Seek First To
Understand Than To Be Understood means to listen to what people are trying to
say instead of putting yourself before them. Synergize means to work together
as a team to reach a goal. If you use these habits, you can make it a victory for
everyone.

3. How does Thinking Win-Win
create a mutual benefit for
everyone?

4. Life Attitudes
The 4 life attitudes are:
1. Procrastinator - When you have urgent and important things that need to
get done, but you wait to the last minute to do them.
2. The Prioritizer - When you have important and not urgent things that you
plan to get done
3. The Yes-Man - When you always say yes to everything like helping with
friends urgent but unimportant problems.
4. The Slacker - When you waste time doing pointless things like watching too
much TV or spending too much time on phone calls.

5. The Tumor Twins
There are two things that you have to watch out for that we call the
tumor twins. The first tumor twin is comparing. Comparing is judging yourself
based on your appearance, development, and clothes. The second twin is
competing. Competing is trying to be better than somebody and to have
better things. Both competing and comparing are not thinking win-win.

6. Thinking Win-Win
Martin Luther King Jr. made an impact in the world by dreaming
about a Win-Win between black people and white people living together in
peace and making that dream come true. He gained civil rights for African
Americans and established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in
American history because of his “I have a dream” speech. He couldn’t have
done any of this if he hadn’t used Think Win-Win.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

7. How does seeking first to
understand than to be understood
help build better relationships?

8. Poor Listening
1. Spacing out - When someone is talking to us but we ignore them because our mind is
wandering off in another galaxy. They May have something very important to say, but we’re
caught up in our own thoughts.
2. Pretend listening - When we still aren’t paying much attention to the other person, but at
least we pretend we are by making insightful comments at key junctures, such as “yeah,”
“uh-huh,” ”cool,” “sounds great.” The speaker will usually get the hint that she isn’t being
listened to and will feel unimportant.
3. Selective listening - Where we pay attention only to the part of the conversation that
interests us. It’s hard to have a lasting friendship if you listen like this and only hear the
words that you want to talk about.
4. Word listening - When we actually pay attention to what someone is saying, but we listen
only to the words, not to the body language, the feelings, or the true meaning behind the
words. We don’t hear what’s really being said.
5. Self-centered listening - When we see everything from our own point of view. Instead of
standing in another’s shoes, we want them to stand in ours. We don’t know exactly how
they feel, we know exactly how we feel, and we assume they feel the same way we do.

9. Genuine Listening
• Listen with your eyes, heart, and ears- Listen to people's body language and
not just the words they use.
• Stand in their shoes- Try to see the world as they see it and try to feel as
they feel.
• Practice mirroring- Don't judge or try to give advice. Just be caring and
repeat what they mean.
• If you use all these listening styles you can build better relationships with
your friends and make them feel understood.

10. Seeking To Understand
This is Sally and Dana. They were really good friends for the longest time until they
got into an argument about Sally talking behind Dana’s back. They argued for two
weeks before they sat down with each other and genuinely listened to each other’s
stories. At the end of the talk Dana finally realized that Sally didn’t talk behind her
back and they were just silly rumors anyway. This proves that seeking first to
understand can fix relationships.
http://www.painetworks.com/previews/ec/ec0961.html

11. How does Synergizing help to
meet the Public Victory?

12. Diversity Profiles
• 1. Shun Diversity - Being afraid of differences because you think your way of
living is the only way to live and the right way to live. People who shun diversity
often ridicule those who are not the same as them.
• 2. Tolerate Diversity - Believing that everyone has the right to be different. They
don't shun diversity, but they also don't celebrate diversity. People who tolerate
diversity see differences as hurdles, not as potential strengths to build upon.
• 3. Celebrate Diversity - Valuing differences. Seeing them as an advantage, not a
weakness. People who celebrate diversity realize that celebrating differences
doesn't mean that you necessarily agree with those differences, such as being
a democrat or a republican, only that you value them.
• Celebrating diversity is the best way to approach diversity because it is better to
think equally of all people no matter what their background is or what they
wear than to think lowly of people who aren't the same. If you celebrate
diversity it is easier to see different people as an opportunity to learn things and
appreciate them more.

13. Roadblocks to Celebrating Diversities
1. Ignorance - It means you're clueless. You don't know what other people
believe, how they feel, or what they've been through.
2. Cliques - When your group of friends becomes so exclusive that they begin
to reject who everyone who isn't just like them.
3. Prejudice - When someone is stereo-typing, labeling, or pre-judging
someone because of their diversity.
If you use any of these they will stop you from synergizing and celebrating
diversities. To accept people you must not pre-judge, be in cliques, or be
ignorant.

14. Synergy in action
Walt Disney, founder and head of studios, Ub Iwerks, Mickey Mouse creator Roy
Disney, founder and CEO animators — Les Clark, Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas,
Wolfgang Reitherman, John Lounsbery, Eric Larson, Ward Kimball, Milt Kahl, and Marc
Davis revolutionized children’s films and created some of the most memorable and
profitable characters in cartoon history. They couldn’t have accomplished the things
they did if they hadn’t worked as a team. Not one man alone could have created and
popularized the iconic characters Mickey Mouse, Snow White, Cinderella, and the
many others that made Disney what it is.
• http://www.cbsnews.com/news/four-great-teams-in-business-history/