One is the synergy that occurs when people become motivated to work together. Another is high performance level that accompanies a highly functioning team. And it does happen that effective teamwork can create those extraordinary individuals. Allow people to fail People who are afraid to fail are also afraid to take chances. Optimal solutions to difficult problems almost always require taking chances.
Failure is scary for most people.
The basic paradigm shift that has to occur is to minimize the cost of failure. One way of minimizing this cost is to eliminate artificial penalties for failure. Yes, real failures have real costs. It is even more demotivating when the definition of failure itself is also artificial. Another way to minimize the cost of failure is to recognize that organizations can absorb the cost of failure more easily than individuals can.