Sep 10 2007
The Salesmen vs. the Geeks Round 2 (Marketers vs. Technologists)
You may want to read The Salesman vs. the Geeks Round 1 before reading this post.
I recently drove up to Lake Belle Taine in northern Minnesota on a vacation and had the good fortune to listen to a lecture from the Chatauqua Institute by Dr. Mel Levine. He founded an institute named All Kinds of Minds that’s dedicated to demystifying learning differences through a neurodevelopmental viewpoint. Their unique philosophy and methods emphasize team collaboration to better understand and nurture individual learning profiles of strengths and weaknesses. He stated interesting concept that I immediately glommed onto for the second round of this boxing match. The theme he identified is that the ability to understand the “big picture” and “skillfully recall and manage vast amounts of detail with accuracy” are for the most part, mutually exclusive skill sets. If you pursue a career outside of your profile, you will most likely not succeed.
