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Did anyone else want to change the world when they grew up?

Maybe this dream was top-of-mind and you talked about it with family and friends. Maybe it was hidden under layers of shame, fear, or self-doubt…but you knew it was there and what it was.

I seem to have fared better than most when it come...

I was talking to a peer mentor the other day, and she was giving me some great food for thought on simple ways to add data to project reports. As I complimented her approaches, she told me that out of all the parts of her job, manipulating project data comes easily to her—but project team member per...

At the PMI Global Summit about a month ago, I attended a session by Erica Jorde and Maia Hyary of JBS International about helping people who already work at your company see their potential to grow into project management roles, and creating a clear and supported pathway for them to transition to th...

I love being a project manager because I see it as so much more than a job. As I’ve discussed before, it feels like a set of superpowers that makes me a borderline superhero. But these fantastical terms are really a metaphor for the tremendous down-to-earth value we as project leaders provide. In ca...

You are a superhero. 

Do you believe that?

Of course, we could get into the nuance of what ‘being a superhero’ can mean for a real human person in the 21st century—and trust me, I love nuance. Often nuance is where I find the insight I need to move forward. “The devil’s in the details,” as they sa...