<div dir="ltr">By BSEE, do you mean Bachelor in Science in Electrical Engineering? </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 4:57 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:32:20 -0700<br>
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>3) I learned about the Hedgehog concept at almost 50. I wish I would <br>
>have learned about it earlier.<br>
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If you're like me and didn't know what the Hedgehog concept is, see<br>
this:<br>
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<a href="https://www.jimcollins.com/concepts/the-hedgehog-concept.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.jimcollins.com/concepts/the-hedgehog-concept.html</a><br>
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On the Venn diagram, "best in the world" is a gross oversimplification.<br>
I *might* be the best in the world at describing the mindset and<br>
process of troubleshooting, but there are probably 100 competitors<br>
right there up with me. I might have even taught some of them. I'm<br>
nowhere near the world's best at anything else, and have a hunch few<br>
other people are the world's best at anything. I wish he'd said "damn<br>
good" instead of "best in the world".<br>
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Other than that, the concept is right on target. I'll bet Jim Collins'<br>
book tells you *how* to find such a profession, because unlike the<br>
concept itself, how to achieve the concept isn't at all obvious.<br>
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True story: I loved bicycles, especially Schwinn bicycles, riding<br>
bicyles, all things bicycles, and thought bicycles were the key to<br>
improving the world. In a lot of ways, I still do. Anyway, in 1974<br>
after graduating college, I called the Schwinn company, telling them<br>
about my passion for bicycles and my engineering degree. The guy on the<br>
phone, probably some underpaid HR dweeb, said "you sound like a jobless<br>
BSEE who's desperate".<br>
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Schwinn really blew it. I would have been a real asset to them.<br>
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SteveT<br>
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Steve Litt <br>
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