And though the U.S. has made a few costly mistakes, one of the reasons for our success is that, over the decades, capable people labored to establish a set of relationships with other nations and a generally workable framework of international organizations that have given the United States and the world a reasonable degree of peace, stability and prosperity.
The Senate, only a third of whose members are up for reëlection in any election year, naturally has more "continuity" than the House, but a "continuing body" — for example, the nation — has as great a need as any other form of organization for a workable means of changing its own rules.
Is such a system workable?
Last year, a highly critical management assessment faulted the organization for failing to establish a workable "project culture".
The next leg is the middling position, when organizations make an innovation viable or workable.
These challenges require organizations to find and implement interventions that offer workable alternatives.
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The United States needs and deserves workable, humane immigration reform that is comprehensive and reasonably enforceable (not by health organizations), with legal paths for future workers and those seeking citizenship.
The most effective 21st century international development organizations will be those that ask -- and come up with workable answers to -- the right questions about gender.
Devin Fidler heads the Workable Futures Initiative at the Institute for the Future, a Silicon Valley-based nonprofit research and consulting organization.
