It is indeed sad how the increasing pace of modern business directly conflicts with the time for proper shared understanding. I believe the frustration of never getting to shared understanding is driving natural collaborators into solo projects, feeding empire-building and risks either shutting down creativity or forcing people into isolated independence.

There's nothing wrong with that as a free choice but if it's not then there must be a big cost in lost opportunities from the multiplying power of many minds and free sharing.

I propose that Google's famous 20% time (whether it is real there in practice or not) become a core practice for all organisations - but not only to innovate at will: with the explicit mandate to practice listening (another underdeveloped skill, share ideas and understanding) through a series of self-structured interventions based on sound principles.