Should you go WIDE or should you go DEEP?
Specialise or generalise? 🤔
This is an interesting question – one that I battled with some time ago when a fork appeared in the road of my career.
Do I want to step onto the pedestal of a revered Technical Guru?
Or become the boring (but potentially influential and powerful-megalomaniac-power-hungry-ego-driven) Project Manager?! MUAHAHAH
😈 (cough cough cough)
I enjoyed being a ‘deep’ person for awhile.
It was super fun (and it was also great for my ego) to be the best techie out there – answering any question thrown at me. 🏹🎯
But then I realised we didn’t have enough Good
#RealProjectManagers around so I decided that I would step into the role elevate the profession. 🤭
I found out that the role required me to be so much more rounded, especially with 🐰”people skills.”🐰 <– bunny ears/air quotes.
When I started to spread myself W-I-D-E I lost the depth, but that was ok.
There were more than enough DEEP experts out there who could support me during the project.
Once in awhile though, I’d meet an absolute Unicorn. 🦄
Someone who was both DEEP and WIDE.
An all-round superstar who could dive right into the micro weedy details and then zoom straight out into the Macro-Big-Picture. 👁🗨
Even though it is easy to get all sparkly eyed at the unicorn, we start with building our foundation and the skills.
Get good at getting good.
Doesn’t matter what it is, whether it’s how to do run outstanding discoveries, configure cracking flows, write stunning apex… just get good at getting good.
That’s what I’d tell my kids or anyone entering the workforce.
Get good at getting good.
Then you can be an awesome W-I-D-E awesome #RealProjectManager like me 😁
Or an all-round sparkly unicorn.
😉
