The check-in text arrives and the planning starts. Not packing. Not logistics. The other kind of planning, the kind that has nothing to do with getting there and everything to do with what happens after you land. Chicago is the fifth city in my consulting rotation, about a year and a half into doing this full time. The framework was still forming then, though I wasn’t aware of it at the time. Thirteen years and eight to ten stints later, Chicago operates differently than anyw