Magic of listening

Class project to plan, execute and succeed, hopefully, at dropping the egg on the floor without cracking it was a surprisingly interesting exercise. Team work can be smooth and productive but also could be a mess. My team was great-planning process involved everyone and we had fun. It's not about the egg - it's about an importance of a good plan. We  followed all steps in the planning process... except for one. We agreed on what is our goal, how to use available recouces and time, worked on ''egg-saving case'' design, even had our leader who took initiative in his hands. But there was an opinion/proposal that we overlooked.  One guy joined our team later and was trying to suggest alternative strategy how to build safer egg case ( very similar to one that winning team made ). Since we agreed already on a particular model and he missed the instructions for the task, there was no interest in what ''a new guy'' had to say on that part. Just a few minutes later he was on board and cheering for our egg to survive. Finally, as any beginner with some tinny errors, my team did a good job on planning and working together.