Piltdown Man
That is great to hear, and I hope that you are right.
Sadly, the greatest CRM school in the RAF is now badly shrunk, if not in peril of extinction. Apart from the rare pachyderm, no Nimrod pilot with "attitude" could survive for long flying with a constituted crew of erudite Navigators and hairy-ar*ed senior NCOs. To succeed in such critical company, you had to have "a good pair of hands" as well as a sociable personality. An appropriate modicum of humility (not too much, of course) would also help.
Given the task of designing an air show display sequence on the P3, I asked my Nav, AEO and Flight Engineer (all experienced instructors) to help me. Their contributions were invaluable, leading to a dynamic sequence that I didn't think I could have got away with if I had just put it to them as fait accompli. Synergy works!