4 ms·
Product managers, technical program managers. You know. Glue people.
by barrkel 2y ago
Product managers, technical program managers. You know. Glue people.
- hagbard_c 2y agoExtinction Rebellion, Letzte Generation, Just Stop Oil. You know, Glue people.
- llm_trw 2y agoCEOs too.
- firesteelrain 2y agoI didn’t take those roles as glue people. I took it as people who were technically adept but facilitators.
- barrkel 2y agoI don't think they're quite glue people in the way that Schmidt seems to have meant, but they're definitely people on the edge of teams that interface between different groups of people - PMs interface with sales, support, customers and development, while TPgMs interface with different technical teams to coordinate a bigger effort. They definitely glue different teams together into a common effort. I'm not wholly sure what Schmidt meant. Maybe vague hangers-on people who kind of dip in and out of things and cheerlead, and take a bit of credit for every project they have a finger in, but not doing any significant lift? I'm not sure at all though. I'm just trying to rationalize it.
- firesteelrain 2y agoThe closest thing to rationalization of what he meant I found was written 7 years ago on Quora: https://www.quora.com/Is-Eric-Schmidts-disdain-for-glue-people-justified https://www.quora.com/Is-Eric-Schmidts-disdain-for-glue-peop...
- exitb 2y agoIn a way it’s not surprising that a company that has such a wonky product strategy as Google, hates product people.