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The Rise of the
Generalist
New Problems Require New Approaches
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Almost every organization looks like this
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HR
With Specialist organizations Designed to support business priorities
Finance R D
IT
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They value deep domain expertise, efficiency and process execution
Domain expertise efficiency process execution
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You get hired, promoted and measured based on your expertise and value-add in your particular specialization
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Going back to 1776, in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, division of labor always represented a qualitative
increase in productivity
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We’ve built our entire society and educational system around
specialization
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The way to move up the ladder is to focus and get good at something
VP of HR CIO VP of Procurement
VP of Sales
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However, issues that businesses face today are
MUCH MORE COMPLEX
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And when complex problems arise,
WHAT
HOW WHY
BUT
HUH
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Odds are they don’t always intersect within areas of specialization
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Each specialist sees the problem through
THEIR OWN LENS
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Which leads to
NARROW perspectives
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While some companies have been successful in bringing together cross-functional teams to work together towards a
Common goal
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Many resort to creating more
specialized silos
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Hiring
MORE SPECIALISTS to facilitate communications between specialists
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But this only increases
Complexity and distance from THE customer
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Problems remain unsolved
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The bottom line is that capabilities needed to win in the marketplace are
much broader than they were in the past
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What organizations really need are
Generalists with new and agile skills
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But aren’t Generalist
jacks of all trades masters of none
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NOT AT ALL!
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The new Generalist is a master of their trade
They bring expertise and experience FROM several areas
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They see
the big picture
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They understand and can synthesize
the full scope at hand
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They are fueled by insatiable curiosity and the ability to
LEARN AND UNLEARN new concepts and ideas.
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They act like the hub of a wheel
Connecting teams of experts
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They complement specialists, by challenging them to think differently
but never compete with them or take credit for their ideas
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they can reframe, package and present ideas, helping decision makers visualize
the future.
As outstanding communicators
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by understanding and personally diffusing resistance to change.
they encourage and promote change from within
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The new generalist is
courageous, the ultimate balancer of competing interests,
and a natural strategic thinker
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the specialist and the generalist
The modern organization needs both
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But it requires rethinking
how we recruit and how we manage
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Generalists don’t typically fit
In a box
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NEW SKILLS need to be DEVELOPED
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HOW CAN YOU SPOT a great GENERALIST?
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Attitude first not only experience
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Intellectually curious (to an extreme level)
meta name="keywords" content="HTML, CSS, XML,
XHTML, JavaScript”
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ALWAYS CONNECTS THE DOTS
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Can imagine EVERYTHING From a different perspective
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Leads by influence and collaboration
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Constantly challenges THE status quo and
Encourages new wayS of doing things
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