He sounds like a good one, but as you say, extremely rare. Most of the time PMs are the main contributors of office politics and playing it is their sole purpose. Basically my point is that they are usually a blight on the value adding team members and just exist as a role to employee communications degree women.
I dunno man, I just know there's this cultural zeitgeist that management in an office is universally a net negative thing but at this point in my career I've seen too much to agree with that sentiment and feel compelled to push back against that idea when I see it. Things aren't so black and white. The role itself can have merit even if the overwhelming majority of people populating that role are barely sentient garbage fires that ought to be purged from society. It's like declaring that a screwdriver is a useless tool because you insist on using it like a hammer rather than ever applying it to a screw.
He sounds like a good one, but as you say, extremely rare. Most of the time PMs are the main contributors of office politics and playing it is their sole purpose. Basically my point is that they are usually a blight on the value adding team members and just exist as a role to employee communications degree women.
I dunno man, I just know there's this cultural zeitgeist that management in an office is universally a net negative thing but at this point in my career I've seen too much to agree with that sentiment and feel compelled to push back against that idea when I see it. Things aren't so black and white. The role itself can have merit even if the overwhelming majority of people populating that role are barely sentient garbage fires that ought to be purged from society. It's like declaring that a screwdriver is a useless tool because you insist on using it like a hammer rather than ever applying it to a screw.