Public Management (PM) published 147 articles in print and online during calendar year 2015. It goes without saying that I like and value all of them and appreciate the members and friends of ICMA who contributed to the magazine this past year. Management-related articles focused on a variety of topics: ethics, council relations and good governance, marijuana, public safety, work/life balance, innovation, and much more.

Still, it’s fun to make lists, so I’ve selected 11 articles (I couldn’t pick just 10!) as my current favorites. I chose them because I found them to be realistic and the essence of PM’s mission: to connect leading-edge thinking to everyday challenges—both personal and professional. Here are my picks, and if you didn’t catch them first time through, now might be the time to have a good read:

10 Performance-Killing Workplace Conversations

What You Can Learn from Hippies, Punk Rockers, and Millennials

What to Expect When the IRS Audits Your Community

Take a Deep Breath

Cybercrime @ City Hall

Improving Grievance Policies

Jump-Starting a Small-Community Economy

What Is the Biggest Lesson You Learned in the Past Year That Has Changed You?

Managing Mistakes: How to Avoid Turning Errors into Ethical Crises

Downtown Revitalization and Seniors Go Hand-in-Hand

Putting a Town on the Map

My StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment this year showed that one of my key strengths is responsibility. In other words, as the StrengthsFinder book by author Tom Rath tells me, I am utterly dependable. I plan to use that strength with the magazine’s content during 2016.