Bounce

When you drop a single rubber band, or even a bag of loose rubber bands, they hit the floor and stay.  Each individual rubber band is able to do its job, to stretch and secure a stack of items. But when you rearrange the rubber bands into a ball, the bounce is impressive.  The rubber bands collectively do what was impossible when operating independently.

It's much the same with disconnected talents.  When everyone on a team is independently doing his or her own thing, incremental successes from individual contributions result.  But, when the collective talents are applied to a project or vision, the benefits of different ways of thinking, operating and executing are realized.  New heights of performance are possible.