There’s one in every band, every team and every group that stays together more than ten minutes.
And the glue guy (along with everyone else) rarely understands the importance of the role and minimizes its value. The glue guy wishes he was the talented one, the good looking one, the visionary, the mysterious one, the assertive one…
But when the glue goes away the whole thing falls apart and everyone wonders why. We had the talent, we had the vision, we had the good looks, why isn’t it working?!
The glue holds people together…and connectedness (more than talent) has a special magnetism and power that can’t be faked.