Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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One study showed that early career specializers jumped out to an earnings lead after college, but that later specializers made up for the head start by finding work that better fit their skills and personalities.
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Highly specialized health care professionals have developed their own versions of the “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” problem.
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increasing specialization has created a “system of parallel trenches” in the quest for innovation. Everyone is digging deeper into their own trench and rarely standing up to look in the next trench over, even though the solution to their problem happens to reside there.