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The no-nonsense roadmap for career changers. A step-by-step guide from where you are to your first PM role — covering resumes, certifications, interview prep, and eight strategies to build real PM experience before you have the title.
You have the PM title. Now comes the hard part — moving up. You're delivering consistently, your stakeholders are satisfied, and yet promotions keep going to someone else. This is the operating manual for mid-career PMs who are done being reliable and invisible.
The Project Manager’s Playbook for Leading at the Level You Fought to Reach
You got promoted. Now comes the part nobody warned you about. The skills that made you an exceptional PM are not the skills that will make you a great leader — and the gap between those two things is exactly what this book closes.
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