The Future of Generalist Work
by Britt Gage · updated 4mo ago
The Future of Generalist Work
- Each drop is creative and rebellious, winking to the world that capitalism is a necessary joke. They do all of this with a team of 34 people, most of whom are generalists with no background in making physical goods.
from The Art of Scaling Taste by Evan Armstrong
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- Build a cross-company network of change agents.
You need to start by building out a layer of high-performers within your own team. Before you go broad, adapt and iterate on the culture you want to build among that group. Then, just as they are ready to move up in their career ladders, facilitate cross-functional moves into key roles for them. This w... See morefrom Superhuman
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- We need resumes that include transition and points of inflection.
Bulletpoints of accomplishments can get redundant and reductive. With AI on the rise, just doing the job might not the most important thing to prove. Things are changing quickly.
We need resumes that show agility– an ability to learn and adapt.from [ The Future of Resumes ] — CAVEDAY
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So many of the problems that teams have — communication, organization, strategy — are unrelated to the function.
from 23 Tactical Company Building Lessons, Learned From Scaling Stripe & Notion
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Generalists can unlock solves to org problems specialists have trouble fixing.
- Mihika likens the role of a 0-to-1 team within a large company to that of Hestia in Greek mythology, who is the “keeper of the hearth.” It is Hestia’s job to always keep the hearth burning, even while other gods go out on separate quests. This means always keeping the 0-to-1 project alive and helping it spread to others, mostly through setting visi... See more
from Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma) by Lenny Rachitsky
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- Most ideas fail, but some will still create value for you even in failure.
An idea that allows you to acquire skills, experience, and build assets regardless of its ultimate success, is worth investing in.from How To Figure Out If Your Idea Is Worth Spending Time On - For The Interested
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- Different backgrounds, different views, different experiences. The best teams are diverse. These are the ingredients that spark innovation.
from Top 5 Learnings After Mentoring 100 Startups by Daniel Rizea
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Diversity of backgrounds can also mean diversity of generalist vs. specialist skillsets. Generalists become multi-functional, bringing domain expertise from corners that you might least expect it.
- Job titles are just the most visible ladder of them all. It’s interesting that pompous executive job titles were invented during the Victorian era. This is when we started the trend of calling a cleaner a hygiene technician. A bin man became a waste management and disposal technician. Later on, a call-center worker became a communications executive... See more
from The tyranny of job titles: from vanity growth to personal growth by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
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Generalists have shirked the the notion of a true job title to fit their work and have followed the thread of providing value and making an impact. No wonder there’s a group of talented professionals hiding in plain sight given how constricting the traditional job titles have become in affirming our professional worth.
- Every. Single. One. of the startups that I've worked with have some
co-founder (or early team) dynamic that implicitly shapes their lasting culture.
These practices may be well-known and honored, or they may be hard-coded yet unspoken (like the pie in my story above). Either way, they are a part of the company’s DNA — its nature.
As an Ops Leader, s... See morefrom Find the sacred pie by Amanda Schwartz Ramirez
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