The Aponwao Ideas blog

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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...

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...

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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...

Aponwao Ideas founders Lizzie and Alejandra walking side by side through the woods

Finding the Path: How Strategy Becomes Impact

Like walking together through a dense forest, strategic initiatives require...

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Thinking Under Pressure

Our most valuable approaches when thinking strategically under pressure are a...

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40 Years In: Project Management Fundamentals

My PM Beginnings: A Foundation Built To Last Just two years out of college I was...

Scattered documentation within a Cloud

Managing the Digital Closet of Communication Chaos

Are your project documents scattered across platforms? Is your inbox overflowing?...