This may be redundant with what others have said at this point, but I think this article is wrong-headed: it perpetuates the idea that you will/should have winn

This may be redundant with what others have said at this point, but I think this article is wrong-headed: it perpetuates the idea that you will/should have winners and losers. The biggest barrier I've found to helping improve an idea is that input is perceived as an attack on the author. And, far too often, engineers will say something like "that approach isn't the right one, this one is", effectively substituting their own solution wholesale for the original. If a team is ever going to be greater than the sum of its members, it must produce output that is better than any single member could produce on their own. That only happens when you move away from "your approach/my approach" to something like "here's a specific concern I have with the existing approach - how would folks suggest we address it? (here's one possibility)"