There’s a compliment that gets paid to project managers that I’ve never fully trusted: “She’s been through it. She’s got the scars.” It’s meant well. Scars mean experience, and experience means judgment. Fair enough. But think about what a scar actually is. It’s the mark left where something went wrong and you were the one […]
Category: PMP
What “Sound Judgment” Means at Work in 2026 (And How to Prove You Have It)
TL;DR: Sound judgment at work means consistently choosing the best available option under incomplete information, time pressure, and competing priorities. It’s the most-paid skill at senior levels because it’s the hardest to automate and the easiest to misjudge in hiring. You prove you have it by showing a documented pattern of calls you made, the […]
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, […]