Comment by firesteelrain
1 year ago
I didn’t take those roles as glue people. I took it as people who were technically adept but facilitators.
1 year ago
I didn’t take those roles as glue people. I took it as people who were technically adept but facilitators.
I 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.
The 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-peop...