Quotes About Expertise

There is no danger in scientists specializing. The actual danger is that the specialists are generalizing.

This rare expertise was hard to duplicate, making the maestre sought-after employees who commanded higher wages than male laborers.

Only experts, for experts, should probe a mind's misery.

If you are in any doubt, ask the pro to show you the motion, not tell you about it.

fundamentally, experience precedes technical knowledge. We

experience precedes technical knowledge.

KNOW YOUR PEOPLE AND KNOW YOUR BUSINESS. In Execution we stress the need for domain knowledge, the kind of granular understanding of how the business makes money that goes beyond profit and loss statements.

Thus you have to rely on yourself to contain your own ego and recognize your inevitable blind spots. Be particularly cautious about losing your ability to listen. Not only do you need expertise from both within and outside the company to shore up your blind spots and weaknesses, but also a pipeline to people willing and able to bring you diverse views and bad news. Above all, you need to be able to recognize when you're part of the problem.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.

Defensive, defensive, defensive. And you can imagine the tone of voice she had throughout our meeting: sharp, dismissive, and filled with anger that she was not being recognized for her talent and expertise.

Like a successful modern corporation, you probably don't have more than half a dozen core competencies. Broadly, most people's core competencies fit into certain categories.

There's little point, though, in being too scattered to master something, or in spending much time on activities in which you can't excel.

people, like companies, can have core competencies too. The same Hamel-Prahalad three-part definition can still apply. An individual's core competencies are best thought of as abilities that can be leveraged across multiple spheres. They should be important and meaningful. And they should be the things we do best and that others cannot do nearly as well.

In pursuit of his goal, he attracted navigators, shipwrights, astronomers, pilots, cosmographers, and cartographers

who distinguished themselves as scientists, artisans, merchants, scholars

Less glamorous but equally necessary fields of specialization included carpenters, caulkers, and coopers.

I am a trained classical pianist. I can play all the masters. I can improvise on the piano, as well as play a variety of styles of music. Yet, I cannot build a piano. Is it necessary for me to know how to build a piano to be a good musician?

the Zen concept of the beginner's mind, the mind that remains open and ready despite years of training. "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities," said Zen master Shunryu Suzuki. "In the expert's mind there are few.

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Seorang yang kompeten dalam level tertentu belum tentu kompeten pada level berikutnya

She told Figures that yes, the civil lawsuit against the Klan could be filed in her name. But she was still suspicious. She had learned long ago that the bigger a promise the less likely it would ever happen, and in her expertise that was doubly true when white men made the promise.

Here is the truth about being a nerd. You don't have to be an expert in something, you just have to be passionate. There is no test and no application. Only a love of a thing that is the best.