Expert Generalists: first three characteristics

As computer systems get more sophisticated we've seen a growing trend to value deep specialists. But we've found that our most effective colleagues have a skill that comes from spanning many specialties. We are thus starting to explicitly recognize this as a first-class skill of “Expert Generalist”. This is the first installment of an article detailing how we think about this skill, starting with the first three characteristics of an Expert Generalist.

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