If you want to be an innovator or an entrepreneur, the research shows that you should be a jack-of-all-trades. Inventors and founders with a broad but shallow experience across many fields beat those who have narrow but deep expertise. Specialization is for insects! pic.twitter.com/TjBCPwe5uA
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) January 28, 2020
One neat caveat on generalists versus specialists This paper looks at the careers of Soviet physicists In slow-moving environments, generalist scientists win because they have time to integrate knowledge, but when things move fast, you want specialist. https://t.co/jwMOW0CXsM pic.twitter.com/gEtcG63TQL
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) February 2, 2020