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How you manage your career depends on whether you are a generalist or specialist. When I started my career in the 1970s, large corporations valued generalists. In my 22 years of working for IBM, they ...

In global innovation centers (GICs) and global capability centers (GCCs), various challenges have traditionally meant that employees ended up being generalists rather than specialists: • IT services ...

In the early days of a business, almost everyone is a generalist. Generalists have a little bit of knowledge across a wide swath of topics and can dive into anything at any time and provide value.

A good issue always has two sides: Apple versus Android, dogs versus cats, McDonald’s versus anything other than McDonalds. And when it comes to deciding your career path, the debate remains two-fold ...

What’s the difference between a generalist and a specialist? A generalist knows less and less about more and more until eventually he or she knows nothing about everything. A specialist knows more and ...

When you decide to hire an outside marketing agency – either because you want to outsource your marketing entirely or supplement your existing in-house team – you’ll have a lot of decisions to make.

Jack of all trades, master of none. Do you remember your mother’s voice telling you to focus, get good at one thing, or how are you ever going to get a real job if you can’t really do anything? How ...

Step into any weekly status update meeting where the topic is chip design verification, especially if formal verification is on the agenda, and it’s clear the verification department is moving much ...