John T. Chambers

We'll have a sales leader go run engineering. A lawyer go run business development. A business development leader go run our consumer operations. We're going to train a generalist group of leaders who know how to learn and operate in collaboration teamwork. I think that's the future of leadership.

American Businessman

Julia Child

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.

American Chef

George Steiner

Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.

American Critic

Elise Andrew

I'm such a generalist. I love everything. If I had the opportunity, I think I would do about 10 different degrees, five different master's degrees, probably as many Ph.D.s, and you can't do that.

British Writer

Matthew Stewart

In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on.

American Philosopher

Georges St-Pierre

There's only one Anderson Silva. I think he's a specialist and a generalist.

Canadian Athlete

In some contexts, being a generalist is highly valued for flexibility and adaptability.

Versatility Praised

'Generalist' often implies breadth of knowledge, but not necessarily deep expertise.

Not Expert

Generalists may find more varied job opportunities due to their range of skills.

Job Flexibility

A generalist approach involves considering multiple perspectives or methods.

Broad Approach

Generalist skills adapt well to changes, like transitioning industries or job roles.

Adaptive Strategy

Generalist courses cover a broad scope, rather than focusing deeply on one area.

Wide Learning

 could about Lincoln and then in the interview he said what made Lincoln so great not as great a generalist Napoleon not as great a statesman as Frederick the Great but his greatness consisted and historians would roundly agree in the integrity of his character and the moral fiber of his being so in the end that powerful ambition that had carried

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 as the generalist. So I am really struck by the notion in your career of the opposition you faced, that when you began thinking about exoplanets, there was extreme skepticism in the scientific community that they existed, and you proved them wrong. What did it take to take that on? Well, the thing is that as scientists,

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 that has other sources of food to ensure its persistence in bad years. The same goes if you're a specialist pollinator. You're better off in the long run specializing on a generalist plant that gets pollinated by other species in times when you're not around to help. Finally, in addition to nestedness,

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 the salamander is a real generalist that will eat just about anything it can fit into its enormous mouth so if we can find a little piece of chicken or something maybe we can get this animal out of the Burrow okay normally we wouldn't be allowed to do this this being a protected animal and a national

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 'Cause we will find solutions. We are very, very good at finding solutions. That's what humans do. We have very big brains and we put band-aids on things. As a generalist, my goal with my photography is not to focus on one thing. I don't wanna be great at one thing.

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 delivering classroom via livestream to over a thousand classrooms in those scattered communities. Those classrooms have five to 25 students, and they're supported by a more generalist tutoring teacher for their learning and development.

The global learning...

 So when we look at what technology can do to general knowledge workers, I start to think there might not be something so special about this idea of a generalist, particularly when we start doing things like hooking Siri up to Watson,

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 at the expense of their generalist education. And they spent hundreds of extra hours with simulators and recordings of surgery, when you were supposed to learn in the OR. And maybe most importantly, they found ways to struggle

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 the main conflict between people and raccoons is when raccoons use human resources to meet their own needs and ends raccoons are the quintessential generalist they really can live in a whole variety of habitats in Washington

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 where they no longer provide the breadth of application and the enhanced capacity for civic engagement that is their signature. Over the past century the expert has dethroned the educated generalist