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The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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Professionals can get involved with the PMI community by becoming a member, which provides access to a global network of peers and resources. Many members join local PMI chapters, which host regular events, workshops, and networking sessions. Online, PMI's projectmanagement.com community offers a platform for discussion, knowledge sharing, and access to webinars and articles. Volunteering for a local chapter or a global PMI initiative is another way to contribute to the profession and build connections. #### What is the difference between PMP and CAPM? The PMP (Project Management Professional)® and CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management)® are both certifications offered by PMI, but they target professionals at different career stages. The CAPM is an entry-level certification designed for individuals with little or no project experience, validating their understanding of fundamental project management knowledge and terminology. The PMP is for experienced project managers and requires a combination of formal education and years of documented project leadership experience, making it a more advanced and globally recognized certification. #### How does PMI support social impact? PMI supports social impact by helping individuals, nonprofits, NGOs, and communities use project management to turn purpose into measurable outcomes. Through the PMI Educational Foundation, PMI expands access to project management education for youth worldwide, including underserved and underrepresented populations. Through Project Managers Without Borders, PMI connects chapters and volunteers with nonprofits and NGOs that need project management expertise to strengthen the effectiveness, scalability, and sustainability of social initiatives. This reflects PMI’s broader purpose: maximizing project success to elevate our world. ### Sources * Project Management Institute | [pmi.org](/c/pmi-2026-q3/home?i=129aea53-bc06-4e51-b2a8-54030905a9ac&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Earning Power: Project Management Salary Survey—Fourteenth Edition" | [pmi.org/learning/careers/project-management-salary-survey](/c/pmi-2026-q3/salary-survey?i=129aea53-bc06-4e51-b2a8-54030905a9ac&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Global Project Management Talent Gap" | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/global-project-management-talent-gap](/c/pmi-2026-q3/talent-gap?i=129aea53-bc06-4e51-b2a8-54030905a9ac&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Maximizing Project Success" | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/project-success](/c/pmi-2026-q3/project-success?i=129aea53-bc06-4e51-b2a8-54030905a9ac&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Pulse Report 2025: Boosting Business Acumen” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/boosting-business-acumen](/c/pmi-2026-q3/business-acumen?i=129aea53-bc06-4e51-b2a8-54030905a9ac&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Pulse of the Profession® 2026: Driving Success in Complex Projects” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/driving-success-in-complex-projects](/c/pmi-2026-q3/complex-projects?i=129aea53-bc06-4e51-b2a8-54030905a9ac&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Step Up: Redefining the Path to Project Success with M.O.R.E.” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/path-to-project-success](/c/pmi-2026-q3/more-mindset?i=129aea53-bc06-4e51-b2a8-54030905a9ac&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI Education Foundation, PMIEF 2024 Annual Report, [pmi.org PMIEF 2024 Annual Report (PDF)](/c/pmi-2026-q3/pmief-report?i=129aea53-bc06-4e51-b2a8-54030905a9ac&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) ### FAQ structured data (JSON-LD, optional) by [TIME](https://time.com/author/time/) Mar 23, 1953 5:00 AM UTC by [TIME](https://time.com/author/time/) Mar 23, 1953 5:00 AM UTC Joachim’s Children Sir: Your presentation of “Journalism and Joachim’s Children” in the March 9 issue is a service to Western civilization . . . Man’s self-announced importance and his unrestrained freedom contain the elements of his destruction. ROBERT T. HAUBRICK Rutherford Heights, Pa. Sir: In the 30 years that I have been reading TIME, I do not remember an article that has pleased me more . . . It is good when journalists try to achieve an orientation that will make their presentation of facts sounder and their comments on events saner. However, it seems to me that the attack on Gnosticism is beside the point . . . In all matters that have to do with human beings we must get away from notions of absolutes, first of all, because they do not exist and, secondly, because they are used as brakes on human experience and progress . . . Such things as human rights—freedom and liberty—are manmade, and are unmade by man . . . WM. EDW. ZEUCH Los Angeles Sir: Your intellectuality (Joachim’s egghead children) was far too scrambled for this eggnostic. M. L. WALKER New York City Sir: Shame! Picking the bones of an old positivist like Comte! At the very least he got off the ground floor with his classification of thought into theological, metaphysical and positivist levels. TIME, still in the dark basement with a lot of other theologians, is trying to translate knowledge of the real world into dualistic mumbo jumbo. The most you can accomplish that way is to produce a few pages of high-sounding argument without once having to refer to reality . . . Come on, TIME, dig the culture concept and a little bit of scientific method if you want to play in the intellectual big leagues. You and Reinhold Niebuhr are sticking your heads into the same sandpile and waving your tailfeathers while the world goes by. TED MERRILL New York City Sir: Someone slipped a dozen eggs too many into that birthday cake of yours! . . . LOUIS GRAFF Ann Arbor, Mich. Sir: . . . A masterpiece. In the deep subjective sea of life, Joachim’s poor children can be understood as blowfish. The little blowfish is alone and frightened, and he has worked out a system of puffing up and blowing when confronted with dangerous reality . . . The sad thing is, as you say, they have widely sold this system as a universal mode for coping with reality, so that the “pathological dream world is fairly effective.” Gullible men may be impressed, but reality doesn’t seem to be. J. M. WEBSTER Beaumont, Texas Sir: Thanks for the absorbing synopsis of Political Scientist Voegelin’s thesis. The waters of TIME are running deep. Such earnest probing into the roots of the current intellectual crisis inclines me to agree with you that there are signs of movement toward a solution . . . CHARLES W. BOYD Chicago Sir: . . . Garbled nonsense . . . This Voegelin is just another egghead . . . MICHAEL CALLAGHAN Minot, N.D. Sir: Congratulations to the editors of TIME on the inspiring statement of moral and spiritual convictions elaborated in your 30th-anniversary issue. They constituted the most important news in that issue . . . CARL F. H. HENRY Fuller Theological Seminary Pasadena, Calif. Sir: Thirty years ago I became a cover-to-cover reader of TIME . . . Although my work requires day-by-day following of a news ticker, week after week I am amazed and benefited by the brilliance with which TIME adds news and helpful background to otherwise “old news.” The continuous bettering of the magazine and its reach is further proof of the creative genius behind it, so I . . . congratulate you . . . and wish you long years of health and accomplishment. A. G. NEWMYER Washington, D.C. Socialism & Peace Sir: In your issue of March 2, you correctly quote some remarks I made in a new pamphlet I wrote for the League for Industrial Democracy on the subject of democratic socialism. Nevertheless . . . you . . . tend to give a rather distorted point of view of my opinions. Thus I insist that the dominant principle in a good society must be cooperation and that cooperation requires planning in which the state must play a great role. I specifically discuss the necessity for extending social ownership under democratic controls. While I agree that capitalism is not the cause of war and that socialism is not an automatic panacea for peace, I do definitely suggest the contribution to peace that democratic socialism should make. NORMAN THOMAS New York City Behind the Times Sir: Re Christine Jorgensen’s homecoming, when she “tossed off a Bloody Mary” \[TIME, Feb. 23\]: Apparently my colloquial vocabulary has not kept pace with TIME’S; it does not seem to encompass a Bloody Mary. DOROTHY A. SHUMAN Santa Ana, Calif. \> Start with a pinch of salt. Add the juice of half a lemon, half a teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce, two dashes of Tabasco, two jiggers of vodka. Mix well with eight to twelve ounces of chilled tomato juice. Sip slowly.—ED.No Place Like Jerome Sir: . . . As mayor of the city of Jerome, characterized by your \[March 2\] article as a “neon-lit, slot-machine satellite town . . . outside Twin Falls,” I am greatly incensed over such a farfetched . . . description of our town. I would like to give you a few facts: Jerome was incorporated as a village on the 15th day of July, 1909 . . . It was made the county seat of Jerome County . . . in 1919\. It serves a large agricultural area with a population of approximately 11,000 people . . . It has a modern 50-bed hospital . . . 17 churches, four public schools, two parks, a swimming pool and a public library . . . The city of Twin Falls, which, from your article, is the parent city of Jerome . . . is situated 14 miles south of Jerome . . . True, Twin Falls is the wholesale center of this entire area, including Jerome, but to label Jerome as its satellite slot-machine town is just plain poor reporting to put it mildly. I feel that your article was written by an anti-slot-machine propagandist . . . JOHN W. HOSMAN Jerome, Idaho Sir: . . . The jeering of Twin Falls residents over your statement will be intolerably humiliating . . . J. R. MANN Spokane Two Words for One Sir: In your “Legally Hot” story of Feb. 23, I was disillusioned when I read the phrase “mental telepathy.” If you will look up the word telepathy in Webster’s . . . you will find that you were guilty of tautology . . . PAULINE F. WOODARD Nashville, Tenn. \> TIME’S tautological Science Editor has now been taught.—ED. Under the Ivy Sir: I cannot sympathize with the educators who oppose congressional investigations of Communism in the universities \[TIME, Feb. 23\]. It seems to be the opinion of many that Communism is rampant among the nation’s teachers. If this is not true, there is nothing to fear, but an investigation to determine the truth of these allegations is an infringement on no one’s rights. Did it never occur to our educators that these suspicions would be quickly dispelled if they would cooperate freely with the investigators and even invite them to their campuses? People with nothing to hide do not fear the spotlight . . . The supposed threat to academic freedom is a bogeyman . . . I am a college man, but I believe these investigations should be pressed vigorously. RICHARD R. DAVISON Snyder, Texas Sir: . . . The effect on the university students and instructors is very demoralizing. Instructors are becoming mere “yes” men, unable to express any opinion besides the accepted one for fear of losing their jobs . . . Some students like myself (graduate—June ’52) who had planned on becoming teachers have given up the idea . . . This “search” . . . is doing more to drive instructors away from our schools than any loss of pay. D. F. MILLER Chicago Sir: . . . I have grave doubts about Senators McCarthy, Jenner and Velde. But however crude their procedure, they have discovered, and they have made the public aware that something is badly wrong with America’s educators and intellectuals . . . W. T. COUCH New York City Record in Olney Sir: Re the March 2 News in Pictures spread: You say the lady in the pancake race in Olney, England ran 415 yards in “1 min. 7.2 sec.” If she had gone 75 feet farther \[at the same speed\], she would have run the quarter mile in approximately 71½— seconds. Having in view her habiliments, sex, the skillet and other handicaps, this seems to me incredible . . . H. M. QUAIFE Highland Park, Mich. \> The Vicar of Olney, unchallenged arbiter of Olney’s annual Shrove Tuesday’s Pancake Race, declared Housewife Dix’s winning time a “world’s record.”—ED. Delightful & Beautiful Sir: Your Feb. 23 cover depicting “sweetie-pie” Clooney was delightful \[and\] the color spread, accompanying the story on Mexico’s new University City, was beautiful! MRS. HAROLD C. BROWN Kentfield, Calif. Vanitas vanitatum Sir: Regarding your March 2 article “Preview for the Prophet”: Since when has the will of God been for men such as “Prophet” Jones to delude the minds of people to such an extent that they purchase him $3,900 Lincolns and $12,900 white mink coats? It is a shame and a detriment to such long-established denominations as Presbyterianism, Methodism, Catholicism, etc., that such persons are permitted to “preach” . . . “Prophet” Jones cannot seriously consider himself serving God or Christ by wearing topaz and garnet rings, a $17,000 diamond bracelet, and sporting over 400 suits . . . ROBERT E. 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