Although some elite designers in large organizations are specialists, for the most part, designers are generalists.
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Generally speaking, the ideal approach for businesses is probably a blend of generalists and specialists.
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Oklahoma is another flash point in the battle between the generalists and the specialists.
The need for generalists who can connect the dots will only grow in importance.
Many new hires at companies are generalists, who work hard, learn, and get trained on the job.
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Those of us with liberal arts degrees who had certain across-the-curriculum requirements were trained to be generalists.
Lawyers tend to be generalists and work in small groups, says Markus Hartung, at the German Bar Association.
Specialists who understood a specific system in depth were rewarded at the expense of more agile and versatile generalists.
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Whether in football or business, generalists are less likely to reach the top.
Early results are promising: The cross-selling pipeline is growing, and account planning across generalists and specialists is working well.
Oki and its compatriots are hardware-centric generalists in an era when wealth is being created by turning out new, narrowly focused technology.
Only a fraction of pollinators are generalists, and even fewer are social.
Most were trained as generalists, rotating through the company's departments every two or three years, which means they know a little about everything.
With vendors introducing solutions developed for generalists and their level of understanding, technology teams are changing, starting to be comprised of generalists rather than IT specialists.
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Oki and its compatriots are hardware-centric generalists in an era when wealth is being created by turning out new, narrowly focused technology -- not me-too electronic boxes.
What it was really doing on the transaction costs was that it was taking a bunch of different specialists and enveloping them and coordinating with the generalists.
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She chose to have mostly generalists with one outstanding specialist.
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Competent generalists are capable of drawing connections across fields.
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Generalists are often derided as a jack of all trades, master of none, yet their broad thinking and diverse interests enable the integration of ideas that leads to true breakthroughs.
Facebook's able to go this route because it keeps the bar high when hiring new employees, seeks generalists to fill engineering slots, and folks are expected to get up to speed as needed once they've joined Zuckerberg's flock.
Smart IT leaders cope with this shortage of generalists by moving to hybrid IT departments that manage cloud computing as well as more traditional IT functions, and that essentially run as virtual internal service providers, drawing on a menu of external managed services as demand requires.
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Unlike many others who had focused on agriculture when they studied peasants, Dunham saw the peasant industries as a survival strategy where generalists could move from plowing to making bricks or repairing bicycles, weeding or making batik cloth or running a roadside stall as demand shifted.
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