In a collaborative project there should be boundaries established for the different collaborators and the pieces of work that are to be completed for the final product.
There are so many instances in the music industry where this happens with the artists collaborating on a song and recording their parts in different studios in different cities to get the project done.
The boundary that is established about who owns what part of the creativity actually sparks creativity because one wants to deliver on their part.
I was on the phone today talking through a collaborative project that is coming up and the clarity of what part each of us would own helped establish next steps which I think is great. The creativity will flow because there are clear boundaries.