Business acumen can feel abstract. We see it in job descriptions, but what does it actually look like? Here are seven easy ways to demonstrate business acumen every day.
After layoffs, strong project management isn’t about doing more with less. It’s about resetting expectations, creating alignment, and ensuring that every commitment has a foundation in reality. The result is a roadmap that tells the truth—and a team and organization equipped to deliver on it.
This is a Partner Voice highlight with the PMI Educational Foundation’s long-standing partner, STEM Racing. This article accompanies the on-demand webinar Building Future Project Managers: Real-World PM Skills Through STEM Racing.
Project management may be guided by universal principles, but the reality on the ground looks very different depending on where you work. Here we explore what happens when PMs move between startups and larger organizations, sharing real-life lessons, challenges, and success stories from both environments.
Organizational stiffness slows down decisions, stops creativity, and makes it harder to adapt. Learn how agile project principles, cross-functional collaboration, and rituals for continuous improvement can help teams get their flexibility back.
1.IntroductionArtificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly being developed through iterative processes, leveraging cycles of prototyping, user feedback, and continuous improvement. While this ...
Modern organizations are obsessed with outcomes.Projects are evaluated through outcomes.Strategies are evaluated through outcomes.Leaders are evaluated through outcomes.Governance systems are evaluate ...
Colleagues let’s continue riding the World Cup wave with our next big topic: Squad Selection.In the World Cup, national managers have the luxury of scanning the entire country to pick the absolute bes ...
What signals help you tell different kinds of AI work apart—and what tends to go wrong when everything gets lumped together?Have you ever been in a conversation where “AI” meant different things to di ...
How a two-minute manifesto turned into a certification economy, and what it costs the teams still living inside it.Somewhere along the way, a simple idea got heavy.It started light. A few people sitti ...
Looking back on your career, what is one decision that had the greatest impact on your professional growth?It could be:• Taking a new role or promotion• Changing industries• Pursuing a certification• ...
In today’s fast-paced, high-stakes business world, the drive to deliver more, faster, and cheaper is relentless. Product Owners and Project Managers stand at the crossroads of customer expectations, e ...
Would you happen to know of any Chapter with a program for this? What could you imagine a Chapter could do? I thought of job boards to post job offers by companies and work offers by members. M ...
Business acumen is often framed as something that is possessed. It is described as something that you have, or you do not. Not only is this notion incomplete, but it is a dangerous one. It presents business acumen as a tangible something to be acquired, a checkbox to be attained, finite and specific.
Today’s PMs face a world of complexity, shifting priorities and constant change. Tools and methodologies are not enough. Faro—Spanish for lighthouse—is a simple yet powerful model that reminds us to lead with fortitude, adaptability, relationships and purpose.
AI can appear so lifelike, so helpful, and so available. Just make sure you are keeping emotional intelligence at the forefront and not letting the self-centeredness of AI weaken your EI skills.
How often do project managers consciously balance our own lives? Drawing from his experiences in both the private and public sectors, this practitioner explores practical ways to sustain mental health and achieve genuine work/life balance in a high-pressure project environment.
No matter how much the definition had evolved, change management was still seen as something directly related to the project. But now, that’s changing. The idea of organizational change management has been moving closer to project-style change management for a while.
This article shares practical lessons from real projects, highlighting successful strategies, critical mistakes, and actionable frameworks that project managers can apply when adopting AI in regulated environments.
Compliance is too often treated as something to deal with later, as a final hurdle rather than a foundation. And that assumption is one of the most reliably costly mistakes a project manager can make.
Organizational stiffness slows down decisions, stops creativity, and makes it harder to adapt. Learn how agile project principles, cross-functional collaboration, and rituals for continuous improvement can help teams get their flexibility back.
In this interview, Yannick Carriou, CEO of Médiamétrie, defines enterprise agility as the ability to keep adapting while staying grounded in a clear value proposition. He argues that organizations should replace long planning cycles with faster decisions made closer to the work and more frequent reassessment of priorities and value. He also says leaders must move beyond command-and-control, foster psychological safety for experimentation and mistakes, and embed learning across the organization. Ultimately, he presents enterprise agility as a practical way to navigate uncertainty by facing reality, challenging assumptions and aligning work to changing market needs.
In this interview, Sagar Kochhar discusses enterprise agility as an organization's ability to sense change early, make decisions quickly and execute at scale without losing alignment. Drawing on Rebel Foods' evolution from a single-brand restaurant business into a global internet restaurant platform, Kochhar explains that agility is not about speed alone but about combining adaptability with a clear strategic direction. Organizations must be willing to challenge their own assumptions, disrupt successful business models and continuously evolve in response to changing customer behaviors, technologies and market dynamics.
In this conversation, agile pioneer and Agile Manifesto co-author Jim Highsmith reflects on the evolution of agility from software development to the enterprise level. He argues that enterprise agility is not simply about responding to change but also about shaping it, requiring organizations to develop strong sensing capabilities, embrace continuous learning and build leadership judgment. To achieve it, organizations must move from a mindset of control toward one of learning and adaptation. He also explores the role of AI as both a driver of disruption and an enabler of faster learning, while stressing that human judgment remains essential in navigating uncertainty and leading transformation.
In today’s complex project environments, professionals must deliver results while managing competing priorities, stakeholder pressure, and limited authority. Yet many struggle to push back effectively without damaging relationships or credibility.
Many AI tools look impressive in demos, but quietly fail when projects depend on dates, versions, and changing requirements. Models may mix old and new documents, ignore effective dates, or misinterpret deadlines—creating hidden risks for project success.
Learn why and how to apply M.O.R.E. practices leveraging the latest PMBOK® Guide framework to organize project work and deliver value beyond scope, schedule and cost.
Attendees will learn the key dimensions of complexity and which practices drive strong outcomes. We will highlight examples that all project professionals can apply to their own roles.
This webinar explores the evolution of the GPM-b™ credential into the Certified Sustainable Project Professional (CSPP™) and what the transition means for modern project leaders. Attendees will learn how the CSPP™ positions sustainability as a core project management capability, how the credential is earned, and how it fits within the broader certification landscape. The session also examines why sustainable project leadership is becoming increasingly critical for long-term career growth and organizational impact.
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