And I agree. You need to be ok at most things and really amazing at a couple.
My specialties are technology/coding and writing, but I'm also a competent consultant with the associated skills in management, negotiation, presentation, networking and business analysis, and since quitting my job have also acquired decent skills in online marketing.
Not everyone in your company needs to be competent in so many areas, but I'd suggest the CEO needs to be. At the same time, there needs to be at least one thing the CEO brings to the table that others aren't as amazing at as he or she is. Later on, when the company becomes larger, who the CEO attracts to work at the company becomes more important than what skills they bring in, but at the early stage everyone in the company needs to be amazing at something, and be involved in using that skill to create an amazing version 1.0.
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Neither.
I think you want to be "angular", which (not surprisingly) is what the Ivy's are looking for too.
Angular means having a few elements of true specialization and mastery, but being a reasonable generalist everywhere else.
That answer could also be phrased as "both".
And I agree. You need to be ok at most things and really amazing at a couple.
My specialties are technology/coding and writing, but I'm also a competent consultant with the associated skills in management, negotiation, presentation, networking and business analysis, and since quitting my job have also acquired decent skills in online marketing.
Not everyone in your company needs to be competent in so many areas, but I'd suggest the CEO needs to be. At the same time, there needs to be at least one thing the CEO brings to the table that others aren't as amazing at as he or she is. Later on, when the company becomes larger, who the CEO attracts to work at the company becomes more important than what skills they bring in, but at the early stage everyone in the company needs to be amazing at something, and be involved in using that skill to create an amazing version 1.0.
Daniel