Daniel Kahneman makes an important point, one rarely addressed so directly in academic circles -- that the ego-clashes we tend to excuse among high-achievers are dangerously counterproductive when it comes to advancing human knowledge. He proposes adversarial collaboration as one alternative.
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"Margaret Heffernan: Dare to disagree" "How do organizations think? In her book, Willful Blindness, Margaret Heffernan examines why businesses and the people who run them often ignore the obvious --... Via Darin L. Hammond 
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The traditional seas of scientific practice were once commanded by solitary captains in disciplinary ships. However, the nature of scientific practice has changed significantly in the 21st century. Collaborations now draw singular H.M.S.
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Given the benefits of psychological safety, organisations may want to make efforts to facilitate it, by giving permission to speak out; leaders can role model this, even showing they are prepared to be fallible in public. It's noteworthy that a team may work well and be cohesive without necessarily feeling psychologically safe, so it can be worth evaluating exactly what the conditions are within a group, particularly if groupthink and unexamined ideas would pose highly negative consequences.
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When Benjamin Gleitzman moved from New York to the San Francisco Bay area, he used a talking turn-by-turn driving app to guide him across the country. In the middle of Wyoming, the voice told him to turn left where there was no road.
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This lovely map of scientific collaboration is done by research analyst Olivier Beauchesne at Science-Metrixm who examined scientific collaboration around the world from 2005 to 2009. I love the way the patterns in the EU, so dense and flaring, look like the center of an explosion. Here’s the same EU pattern up close:
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Collaboration between humans and big computers to solve global problems is the topic of my pick for TED Talk of the week. The talk is called "Massive-scale online collaboration" by Luis von Ahn, a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor, entrepreneur, and pioneer in human computation.
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