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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. 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A bridge from a song by Little Milton seven years ago might start you off on something; that’s how loose it is. Maybe you’ll never even remember it. There are five guys involved, and everybody has a little different thing. Like one guy in the group would remember very impressive horn lines by Cannonball Adderley. Somebody else would remember a singing harmony that J. E. Mainer and his Mountaineers did years ago. Over all the years we’ve been playing, we’ve been buying thousands of records by people nobody remembers the names of. Just the music. Right up to Edith Piaf. HUDSON: I found out I could improvise; I probably found out too young. I could never really adhere very strictly to classical music, could never become a good classical player. Could never get anything “down.” It amazes me what the classical people have to go through to get something down so that it happens every time. It’s really superhuman to maintain the kind of quality that’s required. The “churchy” feeling in their music: HUDSON: I never think of any hymn at any time. It’s an idiom. You’re acquainted with the movement and the way that it sounds. The Anglican Church has the best musical traditions of any church I know of. It’s the old voice leading that gives it the countermelodies and adds all those classical devices which are not right out there, but they add a little texture. If you look at Bach’s three or four hundred chorales, you’ll find every rule and every kind of chord that’s ever been used since, but it’s snuck in so discreetly you don’t pick it up as being definite dissonance. You don’t realize that he’s playing a minor ninth—what we call a minor ninth in dance-band terminology—because it will lead to another chord which will be harmonious or simpler in harmonic texture. The basic ingredients of rock ‘n’ roll: ROBERTSON: People say rock ‘n’ roll is a combination of rhythm and blues and country-and-western, but really it’s just blues and country. White music has always been very ricky-ticky, steppity-step, plunkety-plunk-banjo. You could always imagine a stiff collar behind it. Country music was played by white people, and blues was played by black people. And when it interchanged, it became something else, which is what Levon’s father sings like. He sings blues with a twang, with that different accent, with a different bump on a different place. The new Rolling Stones album sounds like a bunch of blues-oriented cowboys, man, no doubt about it. . . Some people call what they do classical rock, or jazz rock, or folk rock. But what we play is really just rock ‘n’ roll. It’s the same music we’ve been hearing for the last decade and a half. People like Little Richard or Elvis or Fats Domino—these are the people we’re carrying out the tradition for, or trying to. I watched a little bit of the Tom Jones Show, and that’s when you really learn to appreciate Elvis. Songwriting: MANUEL: I lean more into chord changes and melodic stuff. I can write music very easily, but when it comes to words, I cringe. It’s hard to get those words in the right slot, to just get going. ROBERTSON: Sometimes it’s just “whoopie” you’ve got a song. That’s the best way, when it just comes upon you and you’ve got to stop doing everything. It’s wondrous. It’s what makes you want to write songs. The other way you’ve got to tug and struggle. It works, but it isn’t so rewarding. When you’re done, you’re just relieved to be done. When I learned the ABCs, I learned that when you write something, you should write something that’s not only going to be appreciated today but tomorrow too, or yesterday. The best you can do. Themselves and staying together: DANKO: We have five people to bounce things off of. Everybody has their spiritual side, which is nice. One week the spiritual end might come up a little heavier on Garth than on Robbie. You know, the holding-it-together. ROBERTSON: When I started playing the whole age of acknowledgment hadn’t come yet, when people were saying “Wow.” I never said “Wow.” I just did what came, you just ate what was put in front of you. People treat us so much more intellectually and so much heavier than what we ever believe for a minute that we are, and we feel kind of foolish. I wish it was magic upon magic, but its no big thing. There’s no point in writing about it, talking about. Let’s just listen to it. Music in general today: ROBERTSON: People have to look at a tin can as art and say “Wow.” I can’t believe that people are so gullible to accept what they accept in art and in music. Nowadays they’re playing jockstraps and feedback, and they knock them out. I guess there’s enough people to go around and anybody can get lucky. I think it’s up to the individual to get himself to the place where he doesn’t have to be that taken in by anything. 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