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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. 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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Walt Disney unleashes another muttinee idol in this film about the little Skye terrier who, a century ago, won the freedom of the city of Edinburgh. Children will sit up and beg for it. West Side Story. Broadway’s long-running choreoperetta, despite some sick-sick-sick pseudo sociology, makes a big, fast, exciting cinemusical. Loss of Innocence. The mood and melodrama of bittersweet 16 are evoked with irony and charm in this British adaptation of Rumer Godden’s thriller of sensibility, The Greengage Summer. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Holly Golightly. a prominent expense accountess of Manhattan’s lower mobility, came off Truman Capote’s pages as a sextravert; she comes off the screen, in Audrey Hepburn’s performance, as a sintrovert; but the film is fairly funny anyway. Macario. A gifted Mexican director and cameraman make a touching ceremony out of B. Traven’s profound little fable about the woodcutter who sups with Death. The Hustler. Director Robert Rossen racks up an impressive total score in this tale of a young pool paladin (Paul Newman) who learns on the Field of the Cloth of Green that character, meaning Old Champ Jackie Gleason, is more important than talent. The Man Who Wagged His Tail. Come dian Peter Ustinov plays a slumlord who is magically changed into a dog in this comic allegory about bringing to heel the cur within. TELEVISION Wed.. Nov. 1 The Bob Newhart Show (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.).::: The comic master of American understatement. Color. David Brinkley’s Journal (NBC, 10:30-1 1 p.m.). Brinkley talks about British Guiana and Cambodia. Color. Thurs., Nov. 2 Sing Along With Mitch (NBC, 10-1 1 p.m.). Songs of the ’30s. Color. Fri.. Nov. 3 International Showtime (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Copenhagen’s Circus Moreno. Sat.. Nov. 4 Update (NBC, noon to 12:30 p.m.). Robert Abernethy’s news program for teenagers. Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Clark Gable and Susan Hayward, in Soldier of Fortune (20th Century-Fox, 1955). Color. Sun., Nov. 5 Wisdom (NBC. 5-5:30 p.m.). Conversation with Igor Stravinsky. Meet the Press (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest: India’s Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Color. The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A film-clip biography of Al Smith. DuPont Show of the Week (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). Paul Whiteman, Count Basie, John Bubbles, Blossom Dearie, Dorothy London and Bill Hayes in a program of music from the ’30s. Color. Mon., Nov. 6 Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Volcanoes and glaciers in Central Africa. Danny Kaye Special (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). “As Others See Us” is the theme, and Kaye’s targets in songs and sketches range from cocktail-party hostesses to egocentric singers. Ben Casey (ABC. 10-11 p.m.). The Tamburlaine of the frontal lobe has a neurosurgical go at the tiny brain of a professional entertainer. Tues., Nov. 7 Alcoa Premiere (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Fred Astaire appears in a story about a magician who tries to break up a marriage. THEATER On Broadway How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a bright musicomedy spoof of corporate wheels and wiles, and its up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse, is a superlative comic wonder who could coax laughs out of Mount Rushmore. A Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard’s Paris hit, L’ldiote, artfully blends bedroom farce and murder mystery. Julie Harris brings her gamin charm and spirit to the role of a chambermaid who wakes up in beds she never made. The Caretaker, by Harold Pinter. In a junk-filled London room, two odd brothers and a tramp, memorably played by Donald Pleasence, illuminate the perennial questions of man’s isolation from, his need for, and his quirky rejection of, his fellow man. From the Second City. Eight saucy Chicagoans apply intellectual hotfoots to beatniks, Great Bookworms, and the movies of Ingmar Bergman. More often than not, this informal revue is a mirthquake. Among the holdovers from the past season, Mary, Mary incites full houses to laugh along with Playwright Jean Kerr. In Camelot, a new King Arthur (William Squire) presides over the Round Table. Irma La Douce is still the most delectable way to tour the Parisian underworld. Broadway’s Carnival! yields nothing to its Hollywood model Lili in poignance and charm—and there is always the grande dame of musicals, My Fair Lady. Off Broadway Misalliance, by George Bernard Shaw. A happy tour de farce, written in 1910, in which G.B.S. changes his ideas every quarter hour, and the ideas seem scarcely older, even after a half century. BOOKS Best Reading Tell Me a Riddle, by Tillie Olsen. In these four short stories, the author writes with skill and compassionate knowledge of the radicals and working stiffs who fought the battles of U.S. labor when labor was still a movement. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller. Though it is not always under the writer’s full control, this apocalyptic burlesque of war (World, II, European Theater) is written with brilliance and echoes with mad laughter. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. Well worth the time of Johnson fans, this full-length biography of the lexicographer was written four years before Boswell’s, by a man who knew him considerably longer. The book became a victim of literary feuding, and this is the first printing since the 1780s. The Coming Fury, by Bruce Catton. There is still gold in the hallowed ground, and the author has clearly made another strike with this able, popular history of the causes and early struggles of the Civil War. Sinclair Lewis, by Mark Schorer. The author provides a fascinating but at times overdetailed biography of the satirist who turned U.S. Babbitts against Babbittry. A New Life, by Bernard Malamud. Without the allegorical overtones of the author’s previous books (The Natural, The Assistant), this novel of an Eastern intellectual’s losing battle with the muscular positivism of a Western land college sometimes trips on its own realism, but is notable for its tender, Chekhovian quality. The Children of Sanchez, by Oscar Lewis. An extraordinary and moving documentary, mostly tape-recorded, in which each of five members of a Mexico City slum family tells of his fight for self-respect and love. Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger. Two novellas by the U.S.’s most gifted short-storyist, printed two years apart in The New Yorker, gain strength from union in hard covers. The result, despite a midstream change in style, is a masterly, glowing work about a girl’s brush with religious obsession. Best Sellers (√) previously included in TIME’s choice of Best Reading) FICTION √ 1\. Franny and Zooey, Salinger (2)\* 2\. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (1) √ 3\. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (3) 4\. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (4) 5\. Tropic of Cancer, Miller (6) 6\. The Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck (8) 7\. Mila 18, Uris (5) 8\. The Edge of Sadness, O’Connor (7) 9\. Clock Without Hands, McCullers (9) 10\. Chairman of the Bored, Streeter NONFICTION √ 1\. The Making of the President 1960, White (2) 2\. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (1) √ 3\. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (3) 4\. Citizen Hearst, Swanberg (5) 5\. Inside Europe Today, Gunther (4) √ 6\. The New English Bible (6) √ 7\. Kidnap, Waller (8) 8\. A Matter of Life and Death, Peterson 9\. The Sheppard Murder Case, Holmes (10) √ 10\. 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