Generalist or specialist?

[Sorrento]

I have noticed best entrepreneurs are actually generalist, best employees are specialist.
An entrepreneur gathers all the specialist from different fields.
Coders, architects, lawyers, they all are specialist, they got no clue of anything than that. They are so zoomed in they lack necessary life and business skills

What do u think, to become an entrepreneur should you be generalist or specialist?
And if generalist, what skills would u recommend?
Would love to know your opinions.

 

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[Andy Black]

I have noticed best entrepreneurs are actually generalist, best employees are specialist.
An entrepreneur gathers all the specialist from different fields.
Coders, architects, lawyers, they all are specialist, they got no clue of anything than that. They are so zoomed in they lack necessary life and business skills

What do u think, to become an entrepreneur should you be generalist or specialist?
And if generalist, what skills would u recommend?
Would love to know your opinions.

Whoa. Lots of sweeping generalisations there.

I'll address this by asking...

Have you made any sales yet (of products or services)?

Have you helped anyone yet with what you're thinking of charging people for later?

 

[Sorrento]

Whoa. Lots of sweeping generalisations there.

I'll address this by asking...

Have you made any sales yet (of products or services)?

Have you helped anyone yet with what you're thinking of charging people for later?

To answer your questions,
Well,as of right now, I have made no sales.

But, yes I have helped my classmates in studying smartly, I plan on turning my knowledge into an online course.

 

[Andy Black]

I have helped my classmates in studying smartly, I plan on turning my knowledge into an online course.

Great. What's your next step creating a short online lesson/course to validate it helps people?

 

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[Antifragile]

For what it's worth, I don't believe in the concept of generalist vs specialist. Do you want to succeed on a massive scale? You must be both!

If you are an exceptional leader, does that make you a specialist in "leadership"?

Every business owner must be an expert leader, excellent negotiator, have sales and marketing abilities that are off the charts, understand legal like a decent lawyer, must know parts of the business so deeply that again, few come close to it. But to claim "generalist" implies knowing surprisingly little about any part of the business and outsourcing the knowledge to staff.

It is just not that simple.

In our business, I choose to scale in two ways:

1. Money
2. Staff

Money creates a bigger project base. Staff take over more projects.

Most people on this forum will try to focus through technology only. Scaling through tech is the 3rd (or 1st and best) way. Our business is less sensitive to technology and that's why I love it. And while I am an expert in some part of our business, I am not a specialist. I am also not a generalist who knows nothing about any part of the business in-depth and just "assembles" teams.

But you are young, don't waste your time today overthinking this. Overthinking instead of doing is just mental gymnastics and useless. Like @Andy Black said - go get sales, help people and let the rest fall in place in due course of your career.

 

[Sorrento]

Great. What's your next step creating a short online lesson/course to validate it helps people?

I mean, no one wants to study right, by using my method, u could get 14 hours of work done in 5 hours.

 

[Andy Black]

I mean, no one wants to study right, by using my method, u could get 14 hours of work done in 5 hours.

Great selling point. What's your next step?

 

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[Sorrento]

Great selling point. Whats your next step?

Plan, film, create content. Then advertise to a webinar funnel, and sell.

 

[Andy Black]

Plan, film, create content. Then advertise to a webinar funnel, and sell.

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[Sorrento]

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