Collaborativeness

I think that effective teams are made up of people who are willing to listen and consider what others have to say.  I think that the members of the team should be creative, interesting people, as well.  In order to come up with out-of-the-box ideas, you have to have out-of-the-box thinkers.  If you have interesting people who are willing to listen, I think there is potential for some great ideas.

In my experience, group work tends to be a group of people sitting around while one person does all the work.  I think of collaboration as being more of a team effort, where everyone has input and puts forth effort.