Many people who specialize in one key skill may boast that they know nothing of what goes on elsewhere in their companies.
You might understand marketing but not human resources. You might understand computer operations, but not technology. You might be able to read a blueprint, but be unable to make heads or tails out of a ledger. I think this is common in the business world. Because a company’s areas of specialization expand as it grows, especially those working in large corporations may find themselves unable to do every kind of work their company does. This is why so often people admit that they do not even know what goes on in other sections, and why large corporations sometimes have problems with territorialism.
To combat this, make it your own goal to learn other frameworks – other strategies – that work for other departments in your business.
Whether you are drawing up project plans or trying to come up with new ideas, an understanding of another field is always helpful, even if only as a reference. Furthermore, knowledge of the frameworks of other fields will help you to correctly understand the reasons behind successes whenever significant results are reported in those fields. And this understanding, in turn, should be useful to you in your own field.
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