Let’s assume that all the people in the world can be divided into two categories – flexible and stubborn. This division is on the basis of their ability or willingness to learn something other than their domain of knowledge. Now, the strength of the stubborn people is their expertise and confidence in their domain. However their weakness is that they are probably afraid of failing in the other domains. That is why they stick to their own field and possibly sometimes disparage the other fields.
Now if we take the flexible people, their strength is their ability and confidence to adapt to other domains. But their weakness is a possible lack of expertise in their own domain. That is partly the reason they readily accept to try out various other fields.
I guess each has something to learn from the other
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Since most areas and domains (with the single exception of mainframe computers and Indians employed in the field) are constantly changing, a domain expert would need to look at multiple perspectives to ensure competetiveness. And more often than not, your other perspective is an innovative application of some other field’s device to yours.
Henry Ford, was all about automobiles, but still looked at slaughterhouses to come up with the assembly line concept.
No offence but aren’t you simply stating one symptom to be the cause of another.
So if a domain expert looks to other fields to ensure competitiveness, he no longer stays a ‘stubborn’ person. What you talked about Henry Ford’s example was how to adapt other domains to your domain. But what I want to convey by the post is that ‘stubborn’ people feel that their domain does not need the other domains to make their own domain efficient.
For example, a finance guy saying that marketing is all bull. Or someone saying that IT isn’t a source of competitive advantage in business. These are what I call stubborn people. Its like Henry Ford saying, ‘Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black’
So if a domain expert looks to other fields to ensure competitiveness, he no longer stays a ‘stubborn’ person. What you talked about Henry Ford’s example was how to adapt other domains to your domain. But what I want to convey by the post is that ‘stubborn’ people feel that their domain does not need the other domains to make their own domain efficient.
For example, a finance guy saying that marketing is all bull. Or someone saying that IT isn’t a source of competitive advantage in business. These are what I call stubborn people. Its like Henry Ford saying, ‘Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black’