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Not that I want to deride the advice - I guess some things one just needs to hear over and over again, until they finally sink in...
Although I agree that the jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none personality type doesn't make a good hire, the corollary to this is that you need to watch out for people with advanced not-my-job-syndrome. Over the years I've worked with designers who consider any mention of production of their work "techie speak", developers who think design is just "making things pretty", Flash guys who get the creepy-crawlies if they h…
> Although I agree that the jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none personality type doesn't make a good hire I'm not sure that I do. I've seen companies that survived because someone did what it took to ship, regardless of whether "it" had anything to do with his/her speciality. Or, maybe that person's "speciality" was "ships product".