Being ‘T-shaped’ will make you more effective and more valuable

If there’s one thing the design industry loves it’s false dichotomies.

When I’m out teaching, I frequently get asked “What’s better? To be a jack of all trades designer, or someone that specializes in one…

Today’s world calls for range, not specialization. An excerpt from Range.

You should hire a polymath but you probably won’t find one.

The job market could be loosely divided into two categories: generalist and specialist jobs. If you are at the start of your career, you are probably pondering which route you should take. You might even be well into your career, but have suddenly begun wondering whether you’ve made the right choice. In this guide, we will look at the differences between generalist and specialist career paths. We’ll examine the advantages and disadvantages of both and discuss what employees are saying about the two choices. Hopefully, this guide will help you understand which route is more suitable for you and prepare you

Although designing and conducting surveys may appear straightforward, there are important factors to consider when reading and reviewing survey research. Several guides exist on how to design and report surveys, but few guides exist to assist readers and peer reviewers in appraising survey methods.[

Background  Studies of clinical outcomes for generalist vs specialist care for diagnoses within a specialist's narrow domain have tended to favor specialty care.Methods  A MEDLINE search from January 1, 1980, through April 1, 2005, and a hand search of retrieved bibliographies of...

This article survey vs questionnaire discusses the differences between both, when to use them, and mistakes to avoid to get the most accurate data.

If you learn the differences between a generalist and specialist, you are better able to make the ultimate decision of what direction you want to take in your career.

Discover the difference between a generalist and specialist, learn the benefits and drawbacks of each positions and how to decide which one is right for you.

The specialized certifications seem to be winning because of the narrow domain focus. However, the most impactful inventors cross domains and build creative solutions based on generalist mindsets.

Written by Steve Hardy “ Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily

A new book explains how finding your niche too early may hinder your success in life.

A generalist is a dabbler, an explorer, a learner — someone with broad knowledge across many topics and expertise in a few.

Imagine that you’re a doctor and that your patient has just died on the operating table. Now, you have the difficult task of telling the family the bad news. You’re an expert in medicine but you ha…

What’s the best way to boost creativity on your team? One view is that the key to creative breakthroughs is being able to combine or leverage different areas of expertise. This suggests you should encourage employees to explore new fields or hire more generalists — they can connect dots where others don’t see a link. Another view is that there are costs to generalizing and that you’re better off hiring specialists — employees who have very deep expertise in an important area — or encouraging your employees to become specialists in whatever they do. There’s considerable evidence supporting both sides, so researchers set out to study whether generalists and specialists shine in different circumstances. They theorized that the benefits of being a generalist are strongest in fields with a slower pace of change, as they can find inspiration from other areas, and that the benefits of being a specialist are strongest in fields with a faster pace of change, as they can more easily make sense of new technical developments and opportunities. A study of theoretical mathematicians before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union supported their theory.

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