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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. 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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Geraldine Page, on the other hand, sometimes screams “Help! Help!” at the rafters. No one comes running. Everyone knows that she is merely trying to bring her high voice down to a broader tone, and moreover, that this is one girl who needs no help. The question is no longer how good she is, but how great she is. For ten years her stature as an actress has been rising, quite without flash or spectacle, but with a steadiness that has brought her by now to the highest level of her profession. The most recent evidence was her 4½-hour performance in the Broadway production of Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude, which closed a successful run last week. In it, she stood out against the fading background of a dated play, skillfully aging from a neurotic 20-year-old through a ripe and experimental maturity into a waspish old age surrounded by three men she has caught and caged. She is a theater actress all the way; yet her history with Hollywood has been curious. Time after time, Hollywood has offered other actresses with box-office names roles that Geraldine Page has eventually been given by default—Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth—and each time Page has won an Oscar nomination. Doing films as a kind of part-time moonlighter, she has become a movie star in spite of herself. Motive Within. She is an osteopath’s daughter from Kirksville, Mo., who was raised in Chicago and did her first play with a Methodist church group. “I’m going to do this for the rest of my life,” she decided, and enrolled at Chicago’s Goodman Memorial Theater School of Drama. When she graduated, she formed a summer stock company, which she and several schoolmates kept running for a remarkable four years. She taught drama one year at De Paul University and worked with a rep group called the Valentine Traveling Players, building for herself a versatility that all too few American actresses ever achieve. She was all over off-Broadway for several seasons, playing maids and grandmothers (“I’m a great grandmother,” she says ambivalently). Since she was a reedy 5 ft. 8 in. tall, she had to start as a crone if she had any hope of becoming an ingenue. She did anything at all, including a production of The Thirteenth God in which the 13 gods onstage regularly outnumbered the audience. Meanwhile, she checked hats at Lindy’s, Leon & Eddie’s, the Vanderbilt Hotel, the Old Rumanian Restaurant and Luchow’s. Most important, she became a student of Uta Hagen’s and later a member of the Actors Studio, soaking up the Method, which requires that each character should be built motive by motive from the inside. She became the Studio’s virtual salutatorian. She could fidget, whine and hesitate like no other actress before her. Her pauses were unmatched. When she played the spinsterish heroine in Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke, she made an off-Broadway hit out of a Broadway flop, but she also kept the audience in their seats till after midnight. Director Jose Quintero, taking a second look, cut 20 minutes out of the running time by merely giving her a fatherly talk. The Barracuda Side. Summer and Smoke put her into something of a mold, and people anxious to keep her there liked to say that she was a splendid weeping willow but not much else. No one said that any more after they saw her in Separate Tables, playing both a repressed spinster and a glamorous high-fashion model. In Sweet Bird of Youth, she was a supremely fading beauty, the sharded Hollywood sexpot with her heart on her thigh. Her manner and expression are so mobile, in fact, that it is possible to see four pictures of her in four different roles and not know it is the same woman. Even though she will feign annoyance with movie directors for “shooting me from my barracuda side,” she seems to have no real vanity about her appearance, willingly adopting whatever face best fits a role. But she admits that she “en joyed being glamorous” in Sweet Bird of Youth, and in the early acts of Strange Interlude she quite unnecessarily wears a chin strap, presumably to youthen herself. Now 38, she is a twice-married divorcee with a strong but as yet impermanent connection with Actor Rip Torn, who played her lover in Strange Interlude. She lives in a Greenwich Village apartment and works all week long at the Studio, taking on a heavy schedule of classwork on top of the 27 hours a week she spends onstage. In a field where professional jealousy is a factor of economic life, Geraldine Page is admired even more extravagantly by actors than by audiences, who only know what they see and that they have been moved, and seldom wonder how it was done. Even her fellow pros find it hard to explain. When pressed, one actor fumbled, made several tries, then suggested: “Gerry is never ahead. She is always reacting as if she did not know what the other actor was going to say.” It may not be real life, but no illusionist can come closer than that. Actresses: Out of the Mold ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6812768/actresses-out-of-the-mold/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6812768/actresses-out-of-the-mold/"},"headline":"Actresses: Out of the Mold","datePublished":"1963-07-05T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-04T01:27:44.448Z","description":"Some actresses sit and brood inwardly for hours when they are getting ready for a performance. Geraldine Page, on the other hand, sometimes screams \"Help! Help!\" at the rafters. 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