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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. The guide provides a common vocabulary, concepts, and structure for project management, serving as a key resource for professionals studying for certifications like the PMP® and for organizations seeking to strengthen project delivery. #### How is AI changing project management? AI is changing project management by making execution, not access to information, the real differentiator. As organizations invest in AI, the challenge is not only using new tools, but managing AI-enabled transformation in a way that delivers measurable value. Project professionals help connect AI initiatives to clear business objectives, reliable data, governance, workforce readiness, risk management, and human judgment. 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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. 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A young man named Ronny Howard is Hollywood’s latest heartthrob, but to look at him you’d never know it. His hair is the color of iodine. His teeth are separated by gaps he can push a pea through. His face is so heavily freckled his eyes can be located only when he blinks. Furthermore, he stands a mere 5 ft. 1 in., weighs less than 70 Ibs., and talks in a squeaky little voice that sounds as if it came from a nine-year-old boy. It does. It comes from a nine-year-old boy so charming, cuddly, cunning, cute and competent that sometime this year, if he can manage not to grow a long red beard, he will probably become the most successful kid star of the era: a male Shirley Temple. Ronny hit the big time in the picture business in the 1962 film version of The Music Man, has now been signed to star in a string of multimillion-dollar movies. Courtship, adapted from a slick novelette by Mark Toby and expertly directed by Vincente Minnelli, is the first of these. On the whole, it is just another sentimental comedy of the standard Hollywood brand. But at moments the sentiment warms to pathos, at others the pathos breaks up in belly laughs; and in all these moments Ronny is the live wire that sparks the show. He plays a six-year-old whose mother has just died. The boy has an original mind (“Brave boys don’t bleed very much when they’re cut. No matter how big the cut is, they hold their blood in”), and he tries hard to understand what has happened to his mother. But he can’t quite do it till he finds one of his goldfish floating belly up in the tank. At the sight he screams insanely and has to be slapped to his senses, but next morning he bounces up for breakfast as though nothing had happened. “Say, Dad, d’you ever think about gettin’ married?” Dad (Glenn Ford) ducks the question like a well-trained parent, but in due time he meets three women he likes: a blonde (Shirley Jones), a brunette (Dina Merrill), a redhead (Stella Stevens). He inclines to the brunette. His son says nix. “She’s got skinny eyes and big busts, like the bad ladies in the comic books.” Dad laughs, but later on he is forced to admit that kids actually can learn something about life from comic books. But not everything. After bringing up father, the boy develops romantic complications of his own, and he talks them over with the old man in a scene so sly that it doesn’t really matter if it’s much too cute. “Dad,” he says, as solemn as only six can be, “for the first time in my whole life, I’m in love. Her name is Cherry. And she loves me, Dad.” “That’s good. Is she pretty?” “She’s beautiful! Except from behind. Girls aren’t so pretty from behind, Dad.” “I see.” “Dad, I’d like to give her a present.” “That’s nice. What?” “Money.” “Money! How about a book?” “She can’t read very good, Dad. And besides, I’d like to give her the thing she likes best.” “Money is out! Give her something that means a lot to you. Women like that.” “My old sneakers!” “For God’s sake!” “But Dad, she loves my old sneakers. She won the getting-undressed-underwater test in them.” “Son, it’s a perfect gift.” “There’s one thing, Dad, I didn’t tell you. When you meet Cherry, don’t look surprised. It might hurt her feelings.” “Surprised?” “Dad, Cherry is—a little bit—” Delicacy and candor struggle pictorially in the boy’s face; but then, squaring his jaw, he turns to his father and, man to man, blasts him with the awful truth: “FAT.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6626282/cinema-a-male-shirley-temple/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6626282/cinema-a-male-shirley-temple/"},"headline":"Cinema: A Male Shirley Temple?","datePublished":"1963-04-05T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T07:44:02.375Z","description":"The Courtship of Eddie's Father. 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