Stop thinking in job titles and start thinking in shapes. The I-Shape is the specialist with one deep pillar; the Dash is the dilettante, a mile wide and an inch deep. The M-Shape has two or three deep pillars connected by a horizontal bar of cross-domain interests — like a data scientist who is also deep in storytelling and fascinated by psychology and history. That combination is rare, valuable, and impossible for a pure specialist to replicate.
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