You're Not Fired!

As Senior Advisor to the CEO, Dave focuses on key projects important to PMI’s mission and community. Prior to that, as Chief Strategy & Growth Officer for PMI, Dave collaboratively defined and drove the execution of the Institute's strategy to create exponential growth in relevance and impact. Working globally, across the organization to define, test, and deliver "new products that matter," which will deliver dramatic increases in value to our customers.

 

Recently we spoke to Kelly Perdew, winner of The Apprentice 2 , the second season of NBC's phenomenally popular "win a job with Donald Trump" reality series. For those of you who have been living in a cave (or buried under a particularly demanding project), each episode in the series features teams competing to pull off a project under stressful conditions--like being followed by a TV camera and knowing that the losing PM has to face Trump in the dreaded boardroom.

The winners rely on skills and approaches that we try to help you build here on gantthead. This interview will give you some insight into what made this particular project manager the only player to avoid The Donald's infamous catchphrase: "You're fired!" (For more Apprentice lessons, check out our interview with Bill Rancic, winner of the first installment, and our story on some of the recent castaways in 'Go Team' vs. 'Go Away'.)

gantthead: The Apprentice series is basically a 6-week job interview. What do you feel were the top three things that you did during the series that helped you win the job?

Second was planning. On the…

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