The greatest challenge to deliberate creativity is supporting the efforts of teams diverse in knowledge, goals, thinking styles, paradigms, and cultures.
Unfortunately, some of the most important problems yet to be solved require a breadth of understanding that is not available in any individual.
Assembling the individuals who have various subsets of the required information often requires a diversity of perspective and habits that make interaction and synergy almost impossible,
Fortunately, members of teams and other interactions can come to understand, accept, and even value differences in other team members. As this understanding develops in parallel with the natural building of group cohesion, teams become more and more capable of integrating their knowledge and creativity into co-creative ideas which would never have been available to an individual working alone, unless they possessed all that knowledge and perspective.
Many well known tools of deliberate creativity combined with the available knowledge of human differences in thinking, communicating, and culture can be provided to teams to build their ability to be co-creative as teams.
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