{"id":3853,"date":"2010-03-24T23:08:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T04:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2010-03-24T23:08:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T04:08:27","slug":"repost-rethinking-professionalism-the-meta-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/24\/repost-rethinking-professionalism-the-meta-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: Rethinking Professionalism: The Meta-Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There are however some characteristics that will make a person thrive in this complex world. Perhaps a person that has obtained these characteristics, can be considered a new kind of expert. An expert that transcends conventional thinking and can escape the confines of expertise, the meta-expert.<br \/>\nThis meta-expert:<br \/>\n* will constantly improve by using new knowledge and technologies<br \/>\n* will admit that a big part of his\/her higher education has been unnecessary<br \/>\n* understands that economics go beyond monetary transactions and understands that it\u2019s fundamentals lie in creating value<br \/>\n* can navigate the emotional storms of the short term, but can also drive a vision of the long-term with instinct and rationale<br \/>\n* will engage in both introverted and extraverted activities, as challenging as this might be<br \/>\n* has sought and will seek new horizons that lay beyond their comfort zone<br \/>\n* will strive to make big dreams possible, through passion and commitment<br \/>\nThese are just several characteristics I could think off, but I\u2019m sure YOU, THE READER, can think of some more. If you do so, please add them to the comments section and I will add them.<br \/>\nIn my own information technology experience I know that some software developers outperform others many times over, but as technology and informationization starts impacting more domains, perhaps this will only increase. This \u2018value generation inequality\u2019 doesn\u2019t have to be all that bad though. As systems and organizations get more complex, the \u2018chance\u2019 aspect becomes more important, One high return on a bet can overthrow all your previous losses. However, when you\u2019re dealing with a small organization, like a startup, it is very important that your first hire will be one of those meta-experts that has the 10,000x-factor.<br \/>\nBut at the end of the day, I\u2019m not really an expert on this matter.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/synaptify.com\/?p=613718\">Rethinking Professionalism: The Meta-Expert<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are however some characteristics that will make a person thrive in this complex world. Perhaps a person that has obtained these characteristics, can be considered a new kind of expert. An expert that transcends conventional thinking and can escape the confines of expertise, the meta-expert. This meta-expert: * will constantly improve by using new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/24\/repost-rethinking-professionalism-the-meta-expert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: Rethinking Professionalism: The Meta-Expert&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}