While all transformation is messy, it is possible that our current experiment in creating a military that is both effective and sensitive could, like the racial integration of the American armed forces, also prove a glowing success.
Of course, the transformation is messy, and there are casualties.
We invited friends from the surrounding flats and watched them gaze with wonder at our transformation of a messy kitchen into a cozy spot that felt just right.
He spun off its dull origins, environmental services, into a separate group and went on a shopping spree to convert what was left into a dazzling, America-oriented media outfit.As the Catholic father of a large family, and a graduate from both of France's top post-graduate schools, Mr Messier himself embodies this corporate transformation.
Authentic transformation can be a messy process, and what is here has been selected for its "explosive" qualities, as Sanders says, and, according to Sussman, made by artists with "deep, thoughtful underpinnings to their practice".
But as he continues to research his treatment for prostate cancer and sort out his messy personal life, it is clear that any mayoral transformation is just beginning.
Through their interactions, Cooke shows how social transformation can be less a forward march than a messy, halting dance, with sometimes awkward partners.
A growing list of deans acknowledge that legal education is facing an existential crisis, but the transformation to a more sustainable model will be difficult and messy.
Collectively, they add up to a city on the remake, with a waterfront transformation that will be seismic and aesthetic all at once, not to mention messy and cacophonous.
