Strategic planning connotes an organized, step-by-step effort, but it’s also quite messy because it’s a change initiative. In fact, the only reason to have a strategy is to effect change and, whether ...

For six days in November, 88-year-old Susan Smith sat on a polished wooden bench in a windowless federal courtroom in Kalamazoo as judges heard hours of testimony on the future of Michigan’s ...

The traffic-choked streets in Times Square. The abandoned remains of a trolley terminal under lower Manhattan. The concrete-encrusted streets and river of Los Angeles. These decaying fragments of ...

When Louisiana voters overwhelmingly supported a 2006 constitutional amendment intended to depoliticize area levee boards, they had in mind something very different than what’s been going on lately ...

As a person with OCD, my brain wants me to finish things. Completion equates to certainty, and there’s nothing OCD loves more than certainty. The process of achieving the outcome, whatever it may be, ...