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By Michelle LaBrosse
 The first step to success in your projects is to be sure they are the right projects for you at this time. A project is "right" when it moves you closer toward achieving your long-term goals, aligns well with your strengths, and is achievable given the resources and people you have available to you. Once you've identified the right project, you need to follow a systematic process for carrying it out. In this article, I'll show you how to develop a customized, quality process for your projects.
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Property Casualty 360
Summer is drawing to a close and school is starting up again, meaning increased traffic on the roads.
With college students packing up their cars to go back to campus, and parents dropping off and picking up kids from school, the increase in traffic congestion and distracted driving can create dangerous road conditions and contribute to increases in the frequency of auto accidents.
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Fast Company
When a terrorist struck Nice, France, on July 14 a new French government app designed to alert people failed. Three hours passed before SAIP, as the app is called, warned people in and around Nice of the danger on the city’s waterfront during Bastille Day festivities.
This aspect of the tragedy highlights an emerging element of disaster preparation and response: the potential for smartphone apps, social media sites, and information technology to assist both emergency responders and the public at large in figuring out what is happening and what to do about it.
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National Geographic
Although dozens of powerful hurricanes have formed in the Atlantic Basin during the past decade, the last time a major hurricane with winds exceeding 110 mph struck U.S. shores was when George W. Bush was president during the stormy summer of 2005.
So as we head into the time of year that author Ernest Hemingway referred to as “a more dangerous summer” when powerful hurricanes most often form, there’s an obvious question being asked by meteorologists and coastal dwellers on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. Will this be the year that the remarkable hurricane-free streak — the longest since record-keeping started in 1851 — is ended?
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Route Fifty
Over the past several years, the availability of bystander video showing police-civilian shootings has been instrumental in sparking public conversations about the need for police reform. The importance of video for establishing visible evidence of police-civilian encounters has led to the rapid adoption of body-worn cameras by police departments. Tragically, as recent events have shown, having video evidence of police-civilian encounters remains critical for establishing a common public truth and understanding of the dynamics of authorized state violence.
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The Associated Press via Firefighter Nation
A wind-whipped wildfire roared through a Northern California town still recovering from a devastating blaze nearly a year ago, destroying more than 100 homes and forcing thousands of people to flee, authorities said.
The fire seemed calm Sunday before gusts kicked up the flames that tore through neighborhoods in Lower Lake, a rural town of roughly 1,300 about 90 miles north of San Francisco, officials said.
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By Candice Gottlieb-Clark
 A critical point in terminating an employee is to remember that this final interaction will be a memorable and lasting one. It will overshadow most other interactions, and will largely determine the employee's attitude about you, and your organization, going forward. "Off-boarding" therefore, must be respectful, thoughtful and honest. You only get once chance to fire an employee, so do it right. Here are some key points to remember.
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USA Today
Historic flooding that killed six people and forced more than 20,000 sometimes harrowing rescues continued to sweep across southern Louisiana on Monday as the region braced for ever higher waters.
More than 12,000 people were staying in shelters and 40,000 homes and businesses were without power, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Monday.
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Government Technology
The benefits that come from data analytics are many — it's helped reduce inmate populations, improve reliability of emergency medical services and reduce traffic fatalities, to name just a few. Though some government agencies are slow to embrace it due to limited capital or sheer intimidation in the face of disparate systems and fragmented technologies, others have taken hold of the proverbial horns and started the process of improving their daily operations by way of the data.
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Government Executive
The image of the federal government took a beating in the latest annual Gallup survey of business-sector favorability.
Government ranked dead last in positive views, with only 28 percent of respondents rating it favorably, compared with a whopping 66 percent holding favorable views of the restaurant industry and the computer sector, according to the survey released.
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NextGov
How we work, who we work with, and even what we define as work is rapidly changing, but the most transformational change — at least for our professional lives — may be occurring at the intersection of data, sensors and artificial intelligence.
Companies in all fields are beginning to dive into the world of big data in order to increase the health and happiness of their employees, along with boosting productivity and overall output.
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Governing
Public school spending varies dramatically from one part of the country to another. New York is the biggest spender, doling out more than $20,000 per student each year, counting teacher salaries, support services and all the other costs associated with public schools. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Idaho and Utah spend only about one-third as much.
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Government Executive
Fifteen years ago this September 11, 19 terrorists, using four jetliners as guided missiles, killed 2,977 people — and enveloped the country in fear. It was the first sustained attack on American soil since the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which was a far-off military base. This massacre hit the center of our government and blasted away part of our most iconic skyline.
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