The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innov…

Technologist Vinnie Mirchandani dedicated an entire book to applying the polymath analogy to the twenty-first-century corporation. It is the BPs and the GEs that are the ‘New Polymaths’; multinational companies that excel in multiple technologies and synthesise multiple talent pools from different sectors are today's Leonardos and Ben Franklins, he

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Humans of exceptional versatility, who excel in multiple, seemingly unrelated fields. That’s the superficial definition. Put differently, polymaths are multi-dimensional minds that pursue optimal performance and self-actualisation in its most complete, rounded sense. Having such a mindset, they reject lifelong specialisation and instead tend to pur

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In case you don’t have your pocket dictionary handy, a polymath is a person with a wide range of knowledge or learning.

Polymathism is largely untapped force in business practice, but it’s also the future of problem-solving.

New disciplines need serial polymaths, and in the age of specialisation, this was a job that was left polymaths to coin new disciplines.

“The polymath not only moves between different spheres or different fields and disciplines, but seeks fundamental connections between those fields, so as to give them a unique insight into each of them,” says Ahmed.

many of society’s most pressing challenges – such as climate change – require highly creative problem-solving that crosses multiple domains, and polymaths may be the best people to find those solutions.