T-shaped people have now become an essential part of the business world. As the story goes, a T-shaped profile is a person that has a deep understanding and expertise in one or two areas and a broad knowledge of several other areas:

T-Shaped profiles and skills had become widely popular throughout the 1990s when technical people started to get out from engineering departments to take more and more management roles.

However, as the web took over and the digital age became an integral part of the business world, another profile, an X-Shaped one started to become a key element fora company’s success.

Drawbacks for T-Shaped profiles in the digital age

A T-Shaped profile might have been one of those profiles that thrived throughout the 1990s, however as companies evolved to become more and more entrepreneurial; innovation required also large organizations to organize most of their teams around an entrepreneurial mindset.

While a T-Shaped profile adapted well in an era or relatively fast change, it won’t adapt as well in an age of extremely fast-paced evolution. In this era, an X-Shaped which looks more like an artist or able to understand several areas of your business so well will be a pivotal profile to drive your business success.

Inside an X-Shaped profile

If you want to hit it big, you need to start adding authoritativeness and leadership as critical skills. That is when you make the jump from T-shaped to an X-shaped profile!

The X-shaped is an evolution of the T-shaped.

Where T-shaped understands that collaboration is a key for growth; The X-shaped profile understands that leadership and strategic thinking are a crucial ingredient to move a small or large group toward goals that require massive action. Thus, the X-shaped is together a T-shaped profile and a recognized leader within the organization!

Those sorts of profile work extremely well in moonshot organizations.

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