Here's a fantastic post about how being an expert is overrated.
I couldn't agree more. If anything being an expert too often means that you are comfortable with the knowledge you have and are unable to see changes that might be happening.
Look at the newspaper industry and how many so called experts were too focused on protecting print revenue so they couldn't see the internet changing their business. Yet any non-expert who understands the internet would have been better suited to provide strategic direction...but of course they didn't have the 10 years of experience in the news industry so they were (and are still) ignored.
If you look at the top CEOs, you'll notice how they "hop" from one industry to the next. How is that possible? They know business and understand people.
Don't worry about who knows your industry and who's an expert...find people who can think differently and they will be the leaders in your industry.
I'm sick of being admonished that success is predicated on spending the next 10,000 hours of our lives becoming "an expert."
I'm sick of hearing about how I should be molding my life in the image of Michael Phelps or Albert Einstein, because the only thing that separates me from genius is identifying my strengths and working really really hard.
I'm calling bullshit.
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