Successfully leading a rapidly growing city requires vision, patience, and expertise. It takes the steady leadership of a professional manager to ensure that citizens, elected leaders, and city staff navigate the challenges and opportunities of boom times.

In the private sector, smart leaders invest in their employees because high morale is a key to good company performance. The same is true in the public sector.

What do you do when your community quadruples in size? Can you still be a small town? In the last 10 years, Westlake has grown 380 percent in permanent population, from 207 to 992.

The seal of the city of Seguin features the picturesque Guadalupe River flowing over a dam through an impressive brick structure that used to be the city's hydro-electric plant.

Residents, civic and business leaders, and elected officials of Seguin are proud of their city and how having a professional manager contributes to their overall quality of life.

With an Asian community that makes up more than 30 percent of its population, Sugar Land has become one of the most diverse cities in Texas, prompting concerns by the city council about how the city could most effectively serve these new constituents.

Standard & Poor's has reaffirmed San Antonio's ‘AAA' bond rating for the sixth year running.

In what is probably the first partnership of its kind, San Antonio's Metropolitan Health District (Metro Health) approached Goodwill Industries to link preventive care and health education to existing Goodwill Services.

Brentwood is one of the few cities in the United States with a Aaa bond rating. They achieved it thanks to the strong leadership skills of City Manager Michael Walker.