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Re:Business Lessons I Learned This Year by anamax on Monday August 31, 2009 @07:47PM (#796958)
> Although I agree that the jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none personality type doesn't make a good hire

I'm not sure that I do. I've seen companies that survived because someone did what it took to ship, regardless of whether "it" had anything to do with his/her speciality.

Or, maybe that person's "speciality" was "ships product".

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Re:Business Lessons I Learned This Year by hansef on Monday August 31, 2009 @07:58PM (#796976)
+1

As a self-professed generalist I just didn't want to sound too self-serving. ;) OTOH, I believe that striving to develop particular excellence in a few things IS a hallmark of good self-discipline...

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Re:Business Lessons I Learned This Year by smhinsey on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @12:23AM (#797370)
I've always found the continuation of that cliche to be interesting. In full it reads "jack of all trade, master of none, but ofttimes better than the master of one."
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