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Technology specialists should have a strong grasp of the business value stream they are in.
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253 |
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Specialization: It’s nature’s strategy for winning.
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060 |
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Overspecialization can lead to collective tragedy even when every individual separately takes the most reasonable course of action.
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012 |
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Our greatest strength is the exact opposite of narrow specialization. It is the ability to integrate broadly.
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029 |
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…for difficult challenges organizations tend toward local search. They rely on specialists in a single knowledge domain, and methods that have worked before.
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178 |
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Specialization is obvious: keep going straight. Breadth is trickier to grow.
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206 |
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…when entire specialities grow up around devotion to a particular tool, the result can be disastrous myopia.
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265 |
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Both training and professional incentives are aligning to accelerate specialization, creating intellectual archipelagos.
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278 |
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The interface between specialties, and between creators with disparate backgrounds, has been studied, and it is worth defending.
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279 |
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Research on creators in domains from technological innovation to comic books shows that a diverse group of specialists cannot fully replace the contributions of broad individuals.
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290 |
