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I didn’t take those roles as glue people. I took it as people who were technically adept but facilitators.
by firesteelrain 2y ago
I 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...