The ability to manage the flow of ideas is one of the central skills that distinguishes immature from experienced teams. Members of an immature team may struggle to come up with any ideas, and often the ideas take the team in all sorts of directions—some useful, some irrelevant. Time winds down, and too quickly the team has to make sense of everything that was said. The team members are so excited to tell everything they know that they do not pay attention to whether their comments fit into their task. Experienced teams are more careful; they try to build on the comments of others and create
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