Specialist or generalist?

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_cr_ says:

Great visual!

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Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

tekart [deleted] says:

So I guess you can be both, a specialist in a particular area but a generalist in others?
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Ryan Coleman says:

This is great stuff Dave!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

dgray_xplane says:

Thanks Ryan!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

jmmcdgll says:

i like this diagram and have added it to my blog.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Wow, this is getting spooky ... I am literally wrestling with the specialist or generalist career path. Right now I am the consulting generalist: tech, creative, PM, GM, client executive, blah, blah ... and lamenting some deep background in a particular subject matter area (I have working in TV, movies, healthcare, telecom, government, ...). This image summed up my career challenge in a nice simple way. Maybe the next step in my career should be XPLANE!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

dgray_xplane says:

mtbdeano -- could be! We like people with multidisciplinary backgrounds. You can check out current job openings here.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

FoTo FeVeR says:

Cool stuff had discussed this some three years ago!! and still havent figured which of the two i am :) any in betweeners? in here?? like me :P
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

raphav says:

Great insight, Dave. I've been trying to tell this for people in years. Your pict helps a lot! "Wisdom of Crowds", a book by James Surowiecki, goes deeper in this discussion about the two roles.

Can you send me a higher size of your picture. I want to show my interactive team all about it! Thanks, and congratulations again.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

chi.mai says:

which made me spend another 2 hours looking at other stuff all your sets for other goodies
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

dgray_xplane says:

raphav, you are now a contact so you should be able to click "all sizes" to view a larger version.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

woochiwoochiwa says:

David - can you add me as contact? I would like to share a hi-res version with my team, cheers!

Zubin.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

dgray_xplane says:

Hi Zubin.

Done!
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

/.\ says:

I like this!

Can you add me as a contact (so that I can get a hi-res version of this to share with my team)?
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

dgray_xplane says:

tamizhan:
done
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

revalid says:

hi, could you add me as well as your contact? I have a presentation at school about generalists and specialists tomorrow :( at 13:00 or 14:00, +2 GMT i think, i live in Istanbul, Turkey) and i randomly saw your picture, so cool! thanks
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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