How to pronounce“generalists”in English

generalists we certainly looking for passion uh with respect to healthcare because you know Healthcare is its own beast and um you know if what's

So as generalists with tremendous capacity to learn, it seems reasonable to suppose that the human capacity to make rational decisions has an ontogeny,

to hiring generalists the all-around athlete who can do a little bit of everything now let me pause here and say

So as one of the last generalists in the world of wine, it was time to do a new "Wine Bible."

difficult to create uh great generalists so part of our challenge I think right

whether you recruit specialists or generalists, and there's probably a combination of both.

We had too many shallow generalists, people who knew a lot about not very much, but not a lot about specific areas.

And of course you need some specialists and some generalists.

institutions, but lots of generalists.

visual appearance so on the topic of gender and generalists in your experience what has been the value of the physical appearance so what has it

And all of us were well-rounded generalists in the areas of space technology.

And if you have an organization where you are assuming people are becoming more generalists versus more specialized, you have to run it in completely different ways.

You have certainly specialists here, and they have generalists there.

I'm David Epstein, author of "Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World."

conclusion to the event so when assigning roles make sure you know who your generalists are your experts are and then bookend them or sandwich them

- What's the process—can you take me through the process of the specialists and the generalists?

I mean, we're pretty much a community of generalists.

And what he found in studying patent databases is maybe a change in the importance of specialists and generalists over time.

And the interesting thing about this study is what he found in this study was that entrepreneurs are generalists.

So it's more important to find people that are flexible or that are gritty that can hop in and kind of be generalists and

They're generalists, right?

So I think you know, really strong generalist generalists, you know, they would have some obviously domain expertise as well, can be very important

there'll be more, there will trend towards being generalists and being kind of philosophers.

So all over the world, trees form mycorrhizas, and because a lot of these mycorrhizas are what we call generalists, meaning that they

In academia and in industry there's a lot of thought about, well, do you need specialists or generalists?

when I think of-- and I already mentioned this a little bit-- when I think of Google, I think of it as a place that has generally leaned towards generalists,

So that's why we have generalists.

the same 247 coverage to the client but we are we put in place a system where people team that's that doesn't mean that they're um generalists and they can

So, I think for all of our firms, there's probably generalists, and maybe certainly McKinsey there are folks that are expert focus so

Not in the sense that they will bring the specialist expertise, but again to what Sarah was saying, so that they can be good generalists, so

We had lost that, so we had, as I said, far too many generalists and not enough deep specialists.

coach their team, and you know, try and change them from from focus to generalists who can handle an entire school.

years at tax is not going to be as good as the guy who spent 30 years at tax uh and the reason they hired me was because none of those people were generalists so

And so, again, I mean, there's lots of rooms for specialization, lots of rooms for generalists.

and it's punishing generalist, jack of all trades, especially people that are generalists in the physical realm, 'cause if you're a specialist

hand I want someone who's a generalist enough to be my successor on the other hand I want the tax guy to be really good at tax and someone who spends two