So many times.<p>If we take the (cough) hackers and painters analogy to weird places, software is painting.<p>Where when if you have <i>everybody</i> being creative, the vision can get watered down and not as good as it could be.<p>Companies are the same thing, when different people have conflicting goals, and want to express their creativity, it breeds conflict.<p>Some conflicts and checks and balances are good, but I believe the most creativity happens when groups are small, vision is unified, and everybody&#x27;s more or less on the same page.<p>Working with sharp people is great, but often there are multiple equivalent choices.  Arguing over A and B, or compromising to do a little of both, is often way worse than going all in on A or B and then moving on to the next task.