Real collaboration between persons requires at least some intellectual and/or social intimacy. The intimate state is reached when both parties signal willingness to work in a “zone” or “field” of trust, vulnerability, openness, mutual accommodation, and respect.... Teams who are intimate have the potential to be cognitively intimate. In this state, most team members understand the cognitive styles of most all other team members and can sense and anticipate how other members perceive communications, and new information. Cognitively intimate team members can sense and anticipate individual and
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