The Big Tech PM survival guide
5 quotes to help you navigate MegaCorp PM life
I’ve been a PM at large tech firms for almost 15 years, and while the job can often be rewarding and exhilarating, there are times when, despite all your efforts and the best of advice. things just won’t go your way,
These 5 quotes below are for those times, if naught else, to acknowledge that someone, sometime has felt exactly the same way, and has pithily laid expression to that feeling.
#1 — Against stupidity…
“Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain” — Schiller (The Maid of Orleans)
So much of what PM’s do requires great relationships & partnerships, and we count on logic and reason to help us build and foster these. So, it’s extra frustrating when your carefully reasoned argument backed with solid data seems to fall on deaf ears.
Take heart in Schiller’s tragedy about the life and death of Joan of Arc. Truth, logic & reason do tend to win out in the long run, so just be patient doing the right thing for your product.
#2 — The Big & The Little
“The whole war is a battle between these two systems; between the Empire and…
