The biggest mistake team players make isn’t saying yes too often — it’s letting the experience evaporate. Somebody had to run the office move. Somebody had to keep the product launch on track when two people left mid-quarter. Somebody had to own the vendor audit that had been bouncing around the department for a year. […]
Author: Cemre Akkartal
First-Mouse Mistakes: 5 PMP Prep Errors That Spring the Trap
Nobody fails the PMP exam because they didn’t care enough. That’s worth saying plainly, because if you’re studying right now and your practice scores aren’t moving, the story in your head is probably some version of I’m not smart enough or I’m not disciplined enough. Almost always, that story is wrong. People fail the PMP […]
Why L&D Leaders Must Rethink Project Management Training Before AI Widens the Skills Gap
Most organizations gave their teams AI access and assumed the rest would follow. A new study from MIT Sloan, Harvard, and the Wharton School proves it didn’t. Researchers tracked 244 management consultants at Boston Consulting Group as they used GPT-4 for a complex strategic analysis task. They analyzed nearly 5,000 human-AI interactions and categorized how […]
If There Is Any Doubt, There’s No Doubt: The Decision Rule Every Project Leader Needs (and When to Break It)
In the 1998 thriller Ronin, Robert De Niro plays Sam, a wary ex-operative who refuses to walk into a meeting that doesn’t smell right. Pressed on it, he offers the rule he lives by: “Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt.” Asked who taught him that, he says he can’t remember — which, […]
Is Creativity Still a Job-Proof Skill in 2026? (With AI Doing the First Draft)
TL;DR: Yes — but the definition has shifted. “Creativity” in 2026 isn’t making things from scratch. It’s deciding what to make, judging which of ten AI drafts is worth shipping, and producing novel combinations AI didn’t suggest. The creative worker who’s un-cuttable isn’t the one with the best prose. It’s the one with the best […]