During the fall 2015 semester, four students came together to complete a course required for graduation in the Executive Masters in Management of Technology program. To their surprise they could not work with their favorite partners but between three strangers. This condition led students to perform intuitive collaborative practices in which a sense of community grew towards achieving their individual and group goals. The group consisted of three students of Indian descent and the author of this story that embraces a Costa Rican heritage. Even when cultural diversity may have acted as a barrier to cooperation, this factor was of minor importance; the main driver of the differences was preferences for problem solving combined with the first agreement reached as a team: all decisions would be unanimous and democratic. The pioneers were: The Giver - author of this piece, The Guardian, The Caregiver and The Idealist. This nomenclature derives from the results of the MBTI personality test (Thomas & Heaphy, 1998) and is used throughout the writings for anonymity purposes. To better understand the members' conflict approach preferences, each participant was tracked according to Thomas Kilmann's model. This model characterizes an individual under the axes of assertiveness and cooperativeness. According to the theory, depending on whether the combination of these values ​​is high, intermediate or low, the expected response to conflict can result in an affinity for the following behaviors: competing, accommodating, avoiding, compromising or collaborating (Corkindale, 2007 ). The result of the exercise detailed subsequent behavioral tendencies: the Giver and the Idealist were both collaborators, the C...... half of the document ...... excerpted from Harvard Business Review blogs: http:/ /blogs. hbr.org/2007/11/how-to-manage-conflict/Goleman & Boyatzis. (2008, September). Social intelligence and the biology of leadership. Harvard Business Review, 86(9), 74-81.Gratton & Erickson. (2007, November). Eight ways to build collaborative teams. Harvard Business Review, 85(11), 100-109.Merriam Webster. (2013, November). http://www.merriam-webster.com/. Retrieved from Merriam Webster: http://www.merriam-webster.com/Mohan, S., Loría, R., Patadia, N., & Mirza, N. (2013). Pioneer team contract. New York, New York, United States. Pisano, G. P., & Verganti, R. (2008, December). Which type of collaboration is right for you? Harvard Business Review, 86(12), 78-86.Thomas, D. A., & Heaphy, E. (1998). Personality types: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (TN). Harvard Business School teaching note, 498-069.