THE FUSE

You’re part of a group—maybe family, maybe fellow investors or professionals, maybe a team of managers or employees—working together to complete a project that none of you could complete on your own. It could be a small project, like beautifying the land enclosed by a cul-de-sac shared by five homes or providing dishes for a family gathering, or a larger one, like researching and writing a report about a new product line or community center. The dynamics at work are even present on far larger scales, like determining contributions to the U.N. or N.A.T.O., or what effort individual countries contribute to fighting climate change.