The ability to welcome and integrate diverse perspectives and skills is at the core of healthy collaboration and creativity—and therefore of innovation. Being part of a great team means cocreating an environment in which people feel free to share ideas that run counter to what the group expects—bad news or countercultural ideas—and in which the group is able to reconcile opposing viewpoints and move forward. They don’t get stuck in analysis and a never-ending search for consensus or fall apart because of conflict.
