Project Manager Foreword

by Jim Snyder, PMI Founder & Lifetime Innovator

As one of the founders of the Project Management Institute (PMI) back in the 1960s, I have long held a strong opinion that the only way for project management to reach its full potential in driving solutions to world problems was to create a generation of project-oriented people to solve project-oriented problems. The only way to achieve that objective would be to fully integrate project management skills into our K–12 educational programs. That means we must first have project-oriented educators—and this might be just a small problem! After all, business/industry and education are two very different worlds.

Project management is not rocket science, although there might ...

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