The most successful teams are cohesive teams. Cohesion is a scale. On one end you have adversarial, and on the other end is collaborative. Discombobulated, cooperative, and coordinative are all in the middle somewhere. But ultimately you want your teams to be collaborative. Often when leadership speaks of how they want to create a collaborative environment, they are actually describing coordination and cooperation. These are NOT the same thing as collaboration. What they're often trying to describe is a way to address the discombobultion they may be seeing within the organization. But discombobulation and cooperation/coordination are all still arrangements of individuals working at individual, and often cross-purpose goals and values. The underlying root cause of dysfunction within the organization has not been addressed, so at best the business will only go through temporary improvement. To create a cohesive team you must create a COLLABORATIVE environment. That means working TOGETHER toward a singular goal AT THE SAME TIME. They must have a shared common goal, with interdependent skillsets. This is a requirement, not a suggestion. Without it, you're just cooperating or coordinating as a temporary measure until the next crisis.