The days of the lone scientists sitting in solitude solving equations and doing experiments are long over with >95% of science being teams of researchers working together towards scientific discoveries. In addition to learning the technical skills of their respective fields, scientists must learn strategies for better communication and team work to be successful in the competitive world of research. Using stories from fields of such astrometry, or infectious disease outbreak discovery, can highlight principles for creating community, integrity and loyalty, communication, and compassion in teams. Each principle important for successful teams can be applied to researchers in all fields of science to help increase the communication and trust between team members. Capturing and sharing both stories of successes and failures in research teams can help provide a dialog to researchers to talk about how to improve collaborations. Researchers around the world know when teams click, and everything goes better than planned on the path to scientific discoveries. Likewise, most can share stories of failed collaborations that had broken communication channels, no trust, and lacked progress towards the stated project goals. Through learning from successes and failures of past collaborations, we gain insights that help future collaborations succeed and have influence. This talk will highlight the 1993 hantavirus outbreak research team in New Mexico that for over 25 years completed transformational science.