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Project Management Certications:
The Leadership Angle
INTRODUCTION
Project managers continue to face strong, chaotic undercurrents in the
project management industry and require a compass and cra to keep
their careers aoat and heading in the right direction. A once common
approach was to reach for certications to safely navigate these turbulent
waters. Certications are a point-in-time measure of one’s knowledge and
intent to apply that knowledge. But several factors devalue these certica-
tions and their ability to provide buoyancy in the real world of project
jobperformance.
VALUE OF CERTIFICATIONS
Make no mistake, certications provide ...