Don’t Underestimate Generalists: They Bring Value to Your Team
Generalists are important at observing everything and seeking out a particular something that is most relevant for specialists to pursue. A generalist is a divergent thinker who is in touch with a large realm of possibilities.
Steve Hardy • What Specifically Do Generalists Do?
The early specializers often won in the short-term, and lost in the long run. Workers who received general education, the economists concluded, were better positioned to adapt to change in a wicked world, where work next year might not look like work last year.
Slate • General Education Has a Bad Rap
The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a world that increasingly incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
As one studies the lives of some renowned ‘specialists’, it appears that they often have a number of avocational pursuits (prior careers or hobbies) that in some way or another influenced – or in many cases facilitated – their main endeavour. In many cases they themselves admit to this. It is therefore worth questioning whether those we automatical
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