Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Experts are far more productive than the average. But if we eliminate the average, how will anyone become an expert?

Expert managers can manage 10 times the work of the average manager. Expert fill-in-the-blank can do 10 times the work of the average fill-in-the-blank.

But how will the expert become an expert without the time in the average job?

Consider the recent partial government shutdown—do so cautiously. One person could replace eight or ten. But how would that one person learn to do so? Where and when does the learning and growing occur?