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Professionalism and the
Leadership Void
INTRODUCTION
Projects are an invitation to change the world we live in—and ourselves!
is potential for individual and community transformation crystallizes
the dierence between just having a job and having a profession.
To certify is to conrm formally as true, accurate, or genuine, or to
guarantee as meeting a standard.
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Food products are certied as safe;
nurses are certied as competent. Project managers may be certied,
but how does this relate to the notion of project management being
aprofession?
A professional project manager is a source of expertise to customers,
sponsor, and teams, and sho