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