Lake Powell is 24 percent full. Lake Mead is 32 percent full. Seven states can’t agree on new operating rules even though the federal deadline has passed. The leadership lesson isn’t about water. It’s about what happens when rational actors each make self-interested decisions and collectively produce an outcome that hurts everyone — and why the same dynamic is almost certainly happening inside your organization right now. 

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