Echoing other responses, I've found that trust is a hugely important dimension of effective teams. In a technical setting, there is a key benefit to trust. Do

Echoing other responses, I've found that trust is a hugely important dimension of effective teams. In a technical setting, there is a key benefit to trust. Do you trust your mates enough to share an idea that you feel is probably stupid/lame, but might have some seed of value in there somewhere? New ideas that initially seem "off the wall" may lead to important breakthroughs with some nurturing and reformulation. I've also experienced a sort of team-level flow, in which an idea triggers a variant idea from someone else, and then another and another, and collectively you end up with an idea that feels like an emergent property: you end up with something really good that no one could have gotten to on their own, that represents something greater than the sum of the parts.