Book

Range

David Epstein

The evidence for breadth against early specialisation. Reassuring and well sourced if you are arriving in finance from another subject entirely.

• Careers
• Decision-making

1 idea from this book

• Career lessonCareers

  Breadth beats early specialisation in unpredictable fields

  In a field where the rules keep changing, a late specialist with range usually outlasts an early one without it.

  Explaining a non-standard background, choosing between a narrow and a broad early role, or answering why you changed direction.