the.com/synergy
The corporate prayer that one plus one will somehow equal three.
means The idea that two or more things working together produce a greater result than they would alone.
from From Greek synergos, working together — syn (with) plus ergon (work). A respectable scientific term for combined effects, since hijacked by boardrooms to justify mergers and dignify meetings.
Drug originPharmacology uses it for combined drug effects.
Merger mythMost synergy-promised mergers destroy shareholder value.
Theology tooDescribes God and humans cooperating in salvation.