Conflicts arise because people's perspectives, personalities, styles, and goals differ.
In addition, because teamwork requires that people work closely with one another, the chances for conflict increase. A successful team performs well not because it has no conflicts but because it has developed strategies for resolving and learning from them. The members of one past EDC team, for instance, had a major conflict over the kind of solution they should seek for their design project. Vera, however, felt that they owed it to the client and to themselves to take a more experimental approach and develop innovative designs. Until this conflict was resolved, the team suffered from dissension and failed to make significant progress.