While employees may prefer being home, these high-tech innovators are trying to create a home-like environment in the workplace to build team spirit and to make room for the synergy that comes with camaraderie and brainstorming.

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Starting with self-leadership, you can amplify your efforts through others, harnessing their talents, energy and passion so that together, your team, business or organisation, can create synergy and achieve more than any sum of the parts ever could.

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For instance, the Celtics who always defend Carmelo Anthony aggressively used a double-team eight times against the Knicks during their last meeting, according to Synergy Sports.

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