Review of range why generalists triumph in a specialized world.
A little more than 10 years ago, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell was published. Throughout that book, he frequently cited the so-called "10,000-Hour Rule," which stated that to master something, one needed to practice it correctly for that amount of time. That, Gladwell argued, was what successful people did. It makes intuitive sense: If you want to get good at something, work hard at it until you ..