Comments on: Cranky Observation of the Day: On So-Called Visionaries http://crankypm.com/2006/08/cranky-observation-of-the-day-on-so-called-visionaries/ Product management, product marketing, and the ugly side of software product development. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:06:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Why the Cranky Product Manager Really (Honestly) Loves Product Management | The Cranky Product Manager http://crankypm.com/2006/08/cranky-observation-of-the-day-on-so-called-visionaries/comment-page-1/#comment-872 Why the Cranky Product Manager Really (Honestly) Loves Product Management | The Cranky Product Manager Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:57:29 +0000 http://crankypm.com/crankypm/2006/08/cranky-observation-of-the-day-on-so-called-visionaries/#comment-872 [...] like today make the Cranky Product Manager glad and proud to be a product manager… incompetents, jackasses, harlots, and effed-up processes be [...] [...] like today make the Cranky Product Manager glad and proud to be a product manager… incompetents, jackasses, harlots, and effed-up processes be [...]

]]> By: Kerry http://crankypm.com/2006/08/cranky-observation-of-the-day-on-so-called-visionaries/comment-page-1/#comment-841 Kerry Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:09:12 +0000 http://crankypm.com/crankypm/2006/08/cranky-observation-of-the-day-on-so-called-visionaries/#comment-841 <p>Or the only slightly less pretentious "I'm a big-picture person", meaning, "I'm too busy dreaming up grandiose ideas to bother figuring out whether those ideas are actually feasible or pracitcal." Ugh. </p> Or the only slightly less pretentious “I’m a big-picture person”, meaning, “I’m too busy dreaming up grandiose ideas to bother figuring out whether those ideas are actually feasible or pracitcal.” Ugh.

]]> By: The Cranky Product Manager http://crankypm.com/2006/08/cranky-observation-of-the-day-on-so-called-visionaries/comment-page-1/#comment-842 The Cranky Product Manager Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:44:11 +0000 http://crankypm.com/crankypm/2006/08/cranky-observation-of-the-day-on-so-called-visionaries/#comment-842 <p>Oh dear me, YES, the Cranky PM has met many people who recite gems like "I'm more of a visionary than a details guy.", "I have a great ability to see connections that others can't and develop the overall vision."</p> <p>This type of spewage is especially common when interviewing job candidates. MBA weasles are especially guilty. It's also common in strategic discussions when the big question comes up: how you actually EXECUTE the wild-assed strategy these weenies concocted while sitting around the bong pipe last night.</p> Oh dear me, YES, the Cranky PM has met many people who recite gems like “I’m more of a visionary than a details guy.”, “I have a great ability to see connections that others can’t and develop the overall vision.”

This type of spewage is especially common when interviewing job candidates. MBA weasles are especially guilty. It’s also common in strategic discussions when the big question comes up: how you actually EXECUTE the wild-assed strategy these weenies concocted while sitting around the bong pipe last night.

]]> By: Bruce McCarthy http://crankypm.com/2006/08/cranky-observation-of-the-day-on-so-called-visionaries/comment-page-1/#comment-843 Bruce McCarthy Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:43:42 +0000 http://crankypm.com/crankypm/2006/08/cranky-observation-of-the-day-on-so-called-visionaries/#comment-843 <p>I am really enjoying the Cranky PM. A question, though, for everyone. Have you ever really run into anyone actually claimed out loud to be a "visionary?" I mean, are there really people that pretentious?</p> <p>I've met plenty of useless product marketing people, but I never heard one actually claim that epithet.</p> I am really enjoying the Cranky PM. A question, though, for everyone. Have you ever really run into anyone actually claimed out loud to be a “visionary?” I mean, are there really people that pretentious?

I’ve met plenty of useless product marketing people, but I never heard one actually claim that epithet.

]]> By: Rob Downing http://crankypm.com/2006/08/cranky-observation-of-the-day-on-so-called-visionaries/comment-page-1/#comment-844 Rob Downing Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:22:31 +0000 http://crankypm.com/crankypm/2006/08/cranky-observation-of-the-day-on-so-called-visionaries/#comment-844 <p>Barking-out-loud funny! Thank you.</p> Barking-out-loud funny! Thank you.

]]> By: bob corrigan http://crankypm.com/2006/08/cranky-observation-of-the-day-on-so-called-visionaries/comment-page-1/#comment-845 bob corrigan Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:00:59 +0000 http://crankypm.com/crankypm/2006/08/cranky-observation-of-the-day-on-so-called-visionaries/#comment-845 <p>If you ran into Joe Baloney on the street and he announced "I am a visionary" or more succintly "I see visions" you'd step off the sidewalk, walk briskly around him then reach for the Purell.</p> If you ran into Joe Baloney on the street and he announced “I am a visionary” or more succintly “I see visions” you’d step off the sidewalk, walk briskly around him then reach for the Purell.

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