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Behind the Scenes: A Tale of Two Cities

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness” —C. Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Seattle & Amsterdam in Sync! For...

Planning the Future: How Young Students Are Applying Project Management to City Design

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.“ A. Einstein  City of Wenatchi Project On behalf of the Project Management Institute Educational Foundation...

Newton’s Third Law Meets Empathy and Compassion: The Seattle/King County Clinic and the Power of Human Connection

“To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.” Isaac Newton For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction In physics, Newton’s Third Law tells us that for every...

Finding the Path: How Strategy Becomes Impact

Like walking together through a dense forest, strategic initiatives require attention, collaboration, and adaptability, navigating complexity, assessing risks, uncovering opportunities, and moving...

Thinking Under Pressure

Our most valuable approaches when thinking strategically under pressure are a systems-thinking lens and a deliberate, disciplined practice of critical thinking. They enable us to ascend to 35,000...

40 Years In: Project Management Fundamentals

My PM Beginnings: A Foundation Built To Last Just two years out of college I was fortunate to land a job in Marshall y Asociados (MYA), a new company, uniquely specialized in Project Management.  I...

Managing the Digital Closet of Communication Chaos

Are your project documents scattered across platforms? Is your inbox overflowing? Ever felt overwhelmed by this mess? Managing digital communication can feel like taming chaos. In this post, I share...