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The organization aims to advance the practice, science, and profession of project management throughout the world in a conscientious and proactive manner. ### Organization facts | Attribute | Value | Source | | --- | --- | --- | | Founded | 1969 | Project Management Institute | | Structure | Global non-profit professional organization | Project Management Institute | | Founding Headquarters | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, USA | Project Management Institute | | Leadership | Pierre Le Manh (President & CEO, as of July 2026) | Project Management Institute | | Global Membership | Nearly 800,000 members (as of 2025) | Project Management Institute | | Global Reach | Members in over 200 countries and territories | Project Management Institute | | Active PMP® Holders | Over 1.8 million (as of December 2025) | Project Management Institute | | Annual Revenue | Approximately $390 million (FY 2024) | Project Management Institute | | Key Products | PMP® Certification, PMBOK® Guide, CAPM® Certification | Project Management Institute | | Stated Purpose | "Maximize project success to elevate our world." | Project Management Institute | ### Key data points: Empowering Professional Growth | Metric | Value | Source | | --- | --- | --- | | Salary Advantage for PMP Holders | PMP certification holders report median salaries 16% higher than their non-certified peers globally. | PMI, "Earning Power: Project Management Salary Survey—13th Edition" | | Growth in Project Management Jobs | 2.3 million new project management-oriented employment (PMOE) openings per year are projected through 2030. | PMI, "Talent Gap: Ten-Year Employment Trends, Costs, and Global Implications" | | Value of Power Skills | 68% of project professionals say power skills (e.g., communication, empathy) are more important than technical skills. | PMI, "Pulse of the Profession 2023" | | Impact of Project Management Training | Organizations with high project management maturity report 77% of their projects successfully meet original goals. | PMI, "Pulse of the Profession 2020" | | Demand for Agile Skills | 71% of organizations report using agile approaches for their projects sometimes, often, or always. | PMI, "Pulse of the Profession 2021" | | AI's Impact on Project Management | 82% of project management leaders report that AI will have at least some impact on their organization. | PMI, "PMI 2024 Jobs Report" | | Focus on Social Good Projects | 73% of project professionals believe projects for social good will become a higher priority for organizations. | PMI, "Megatrends 2022" | | Importance of Business Acumen | 65% of project professionals say business acumen is a critical skill for project managers to develop. | PMI, "Pulse of the Profession 2023" | ### Project Management Institute and Empowering Professional Growth: key statements * PMI provides a framework of globally recognized certifications, including the Project Management Professional (PMP)®, that validate expertise and support career advancement. * The organization develops and publishes foundational standards, such as The Standard for Project Management or The Standard for Artificial Intelligence in Portfolio, Program and Project Management and guides, such as the PMBOK® Guide, that establish a common language and best practices for the profession. * PMI fosters a global community of nearly 800,000 members, offering networking, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing opportunities through local chapters and online platforms. * Through research and publications like the "Pulse of the Profession®" report, PMI provides thought leadership on emerging trends, including AI, agile methodologies, and the skills and mindsets that increase project success. * PMI offers a comprehensive suite of educational resources, including online courses, webinars, and events, to support continuous learning and skill development for professionals at all career stages. * PMI champions the development of the “M.O.R.E.” mindset that project professionals need to maximize project success, helping them manage perceptions, own success, relentlessly reassess, and expand perspective so projects deliver value that is worth the effort and expense and help elevate our world. * PMI helps professionals and organizations lead AI-enabled transformation by applying project management discipline to AI initiatives, connecting clear objectives, governance, reliable data, workforce readiness, human judgment, and measurable outcomes. * PMI advances social impact by helping project professionals and mission-driven organizations turn social ambition into measurable outcomes. Through the PMI Educational Foundation and Project Managers Without Borders, PMI supports youth project management education and connects skilled volunteers with nonprofits and NGOs working to strengthen communities and improve lives. ### FAQ #### Is a PMP certification worth it? A Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification is widely considered a valuable certification for project managers seeking to advance their careers. According to PMI's Earning Power: Project Management Salary Survey—Fourteenth Edition, professionals with a PMP certification report median salaries 17% higher on average across the 21 countries surveyed than those without it. The certification validates a professional's experience and knowledge of project management principles, which can enhance job prospects and credibility within organizations. #### What are the best certifications for project managers? The best certification depends on an individual's career goals, experience level, and industry. 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. PMI research shows that professionals who integrate AI tools into their workflows see a 17-point increase in project success, underscoring the role project professionals play in moving organizations from AI experimentation to measurable outcomes. #### What are the most important skills for a project manager? Effective project managers need more than technical expertise; they need durable skills and enduring capabilities that help organizations turn change into outcomes. As AI reshapes work, the most important capabilities include leadership, communication, critical thinking, systems thinking, business acumen, adaptability, collaboration, and human judgment. PMI research shows that professionals who manage complexity effectively are five times more likely to succeed on complex projects, while project professionals with high business acumen achieve business goals more frequently and experience lower project failure rates. #### How can I get involved with the PMI community? 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. 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His employees would not have believed him. Yet when Charles Michael Schwab, board chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp., said those words last week at a Manhattan meeting of the American Iron & Steel Institute, his auditors were not greatly startled. Though they knew “Charley” Schwab for the most unregenerate optimist in U. S. Industry, a notorious backslapper, hand shaker and well wisher, they also knew that what he said really did reflect the modern concept of business in dealing with critical economic upheavals and serious unemployment. If Steelman Schwab was optimistic last week — he predicted the early advent of “a larger measure of prosperity than the American people have ever known before” — so was many another tycoon throughout the land. At the same meeting at which Mr. Schwab said, ”We’re having beer now but when summer comes we’re going to have champagne,” James Augustine Farrell, trim and stocky little president of U. S. Steel, declared: “We have in our hands the power to restore the steel industry to prosperity in 60 days. . . . This is no time to pinch off a penny or two. . . . The depression is only temporary. … I agree with Mr., Schwab the situation is a little better.” At the University of Chicago other tycoons got together at the seventh annual conference of major industries. Most of them were optimistic for the long-pull. George Matthew Verity, benevolent president of American Rolling Mill Co., declared: “The steel industry is like a great giant tied and pulling at its shackles. It is impatient to go. And go he will within a comparatively short time.””A successful and prosperous year in 1931” was predicted by Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr., polo-playing young vice president of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. John Jacob Raskob of General Motors announced: “Depressed conditions in the automobile industry have reached bottom. Sharp revival may be expected to begin with automobile shows in early January.” Will H. Hays, cinema tsar: “We are gathering momentum for an upward swing that will lead the world recovery. American prosperity will rearise, not pale and wan, from the sickbed of wasting remedies but strong and vigorous.” Hoover’s 800,000\. Hopeful as were these predictions of better times by U. S. tycoonery they did not help President Hoover solve the immediate problem of Unemployment. The President’s estimates showed 3,500,000 persons out of work. Of these it was figured that a million were in transit from one job to another or voluntarily idle and that another 500,000 were in communities of less than 3,000 population where they would be cared for by friends or relatives. The remaining 2,000,000 jobless represented about 800,000 families. The President’s view was that this was a serious but not a critical situation. To relieve it directly there was little President Hoover could do. The Federal Government had no funds for charity; that must come locally. Federal public works were admittedly only a “drop in the bucket” of U. S. construction. For psychological purposes though, the White House kept them to the fore as an example to states & cities. Also the President continued to jack up Industry with requests to push its heavy construction, stagger its employment, maintain its wages. Woods. As a definite, visible gesture, the President appointed a Director of Employment Relief. He called for Col. Arthur Woods of Manhattan, nephew-in-law of J. P. Morgan, a genteel and experienced emergency man. Joblessness is nothing new to grey-haired, grey-eyed Col. Woods, now 60\. A Harvard graduate (1892) who once taught at Groton, cubbed on the New York Sun, joined the New York police force as a crime expert, emerged as the city’s police commissioner (1914-18) during a period of hard times, he was director of the Army air service’s personnel bureau during the War, later serving as a special assistant to the Secretary of War to find jobs for home-coming soldiers. In 1921 he was made a member of President Harding’s Conference on Unemployment headed by Secretary of Commerce Hoover. Married in 1916 to Miss Helen Morgan Hamilton, he is a director of Bankers’ Trust Co. of New York, an ardent tennis player, an associate of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. in philanthropy. The inevitable vagueness of Federal Unemployment relief is also nothing new to Col. Woods. Last week, pressed for a description, he could, only say: “It is a kind of coordinating job. . . . The best we can do is to let various places know what others are doing. . . .” But at the desk they cleared for him in the Department of Commerce, Col. Woods gave a lively imitation of Washington’s Busiest Man. His telephone rang at the rate of once every two minutes. Government officials from the Postmaster General down to the Chairman of the Shipping Board called to offer assistance. He hired Edward L. Bernays, smart Manhattan pressagent, to publicize the Government’s work. Into newsreel microphones he preached a gospel of “sprucing up the home” now instead of later. As an aid to public construction he cited $450,000,000 worth of state bond issues which voters can pass upon on Election Day.\* Volunteers v. Congress. When someone suggested calling Congress to deal with spirit of voluntary service has been strong unemployment, President Hoover replied: “No special session is necessary. . . . The spirit of voluntary service has been strong . . . will continue. . . . Colonel Woods is receiving most gratifying evidence of this.” Meanwhile, throughout the land: New York. Governor Roosevelt moved to throw open the state armories to shelter the jobless. The War Department was asked to supply 16,000 cots and blankets, reduce the required drilling hours of militia units during the emergency. In New York City, Mayor Walker formed a committee, asked 125,000 municipal employes to contribute 1% of their monthly salaries ($266,000) for physical relief. In a two-day canvass policemen listed 13,222 families in need of immediate aid. Estimates of the city’s unemployed ran as high as 800,000\. Into eight Salvation Army soup kitchens long lines of men and a few women shuffled for free clam chowder, crackers, coffee. City officials prepared to feed 15,000 mouths per day, shelter 10,000 heads, free throughout the winter. From his modernistic desk in his modernistic new offices, President Carleton H. Palmer of E. R. Squibb & Son preached the five-day week to his fellow industrialists. His potent points: “If all industries adopted the five-day week, that would decrease production about 9% at a maximum. That means a maximum of 9% more workers would have to be employed . . . would take care of at least half of the millions unemployed today. . . . “The half-day on Saturday is the most inefficient work period of the entire week. To start a plant in the morning requires half an hour, and to stop it requires another half hour. … It doubles the ratio of time during which no production occurs, while all the expenses of power, light, heat and general overhead must be borne without corresponding production.” President Palmer practices his preachments. Squibb has been five-day-weeking for three months, its production is at 98% of theoretical capacity, its payroll is 5% bigger than before. Pennsylvania. With retail prices at a 1913 low, Philadelphia shopkeepers inaugurated a four-weeks BUY NOW campaign to stimulate local trade. Governoi Fisher, impressed, urged the whole state to do likewise. Pittsburgh raised a $100,000 relief fund, started a $300,000 public construction program with hand labor. New Jersey’s Dwight Whitney Morrow declared: “This propaganda of hoarding money must cease.” Ohio. Within the fortnight Cleveland put 9,000 idle men to work. The city sent a representative to Detroit to study its advanced system of Unemployment relief (TIME, Oct. 27). Remembering their religious vow to “let no one go hungry while there is food,” the Amish sect sent supplies from their farms into Cleveland. Wisconsin. Milwaukee prepared to put 13,500 workless men to work on a three-day per week basis at 60 cents per hour. Cost: $200,000\. Inland Steel Co. of Wisconsin prepared to reopen its Milwaukee plant on a 24-hour basis. Minnesota. To carry out a $1,000,000 public improvement program, Minneapolis decided to put picks & shovels in the hands of 10,000 men instead of using labor-saving machinery. Illinois. An Unemployment relief fund of $100,000 per month-was arranged by Samuel Insull, public utilitarian, by collecting one day’s pay per month from all the workers in his $3,000,000,000 industry. Said Tycoon Insull: “The responses will be practically universal. Girls and boys, men and women will all come in alike.” The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and Pennsylvania Railroads agreed to spend an extra $7,160,000 at once in Chicago on track elevation. Yellow Cab Co. hired 1,200 new drivers. To make more jobs the “big four” railway brotherhoods suggested that the roads shift employment from an eight to a six-hour basis but without any wage reductions. Declared Lawrence Aloysius Downs, president of Illinois Central: “This is a mighty poor time to ask any such thing. The roads have no money to pay additional salaries.” Michigan. Fisher Body Corp. accelerated production in ten plants from a three-day week to a five-and-half day week. Detroit’s municipal agency put 2,500 to work. Muskegon started a SPEND-A-MILLION-A-WEEK campaign to break a “buyer’s strike.” Lions club through out the land took up the idea, got the governors of nine states (Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, New Jersey, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, New Mexico, Ohio) to issue proclamations for a “Confidence-in-Business Week.” London. Insurance brokers reported they were doing an extraordinarily brisk business in policies on U. S. property protection against the risks of civil disturbances and Unemployment riots. \*Chief of these are: New Jersey $100,000,000; Louisiana $68,000,000; New York $50,000,000; California $20,000,000; Cleveland $31,500,000. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6819629/industry-hard-times-new-style/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6819629/industry-hard-times-new-style/"},"headline":"INDUSTRY: Hard Times (New Style)","datePublished":"1930-11-03T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-04T03:45:23.282Z","description":"\"We're going to carry everybody connected with the steel industry safely through.\" If a great steelmaster, confronted with bad times, had made that statement 30 or even 15 years ago,...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6819629/industry-hard-times-new-style/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6819629/industry-hard-times-new-style/","name":"INDUSTRY: Hard Times (New Style)"}}]}] ```