Aleix Prat, Director of Clínic Barcelona Comprehensive Cancer Center (4CB), Professor at the University of Barcelona, Co‑Founder and President of Reveal Genomics, Director of the Breast Cancer Program (IOB‑Pangaea), shared posts on LinkedIn:
“For a long time I have thought that organizations do not only grow by incorporating talent, but by helping the talent they already have to grow.
At a time when AI will transform many tasks, the true value of people will be less and less what they do repetitively and more and more their ability to learn, connect disciplines and adapt.
We often look for the best specialist for each role, but we may spend too little time creating professionals capable of understanding different contexts and taking on new challenges.
Xavier Marcet’s article in La Vanguardia on professional versatility has made me think about precisely that. Transversality is not to lose specialization; it is to multiply its impact.
In a hospital or a research center, great advances are almost never born from a single discipline. They are born when clinicians, researchers, bioinformaticians, nurses, managers and innovators share language, objectives and the same ambition.
Perhaps the best investment we can make in people is not only to train them better in what they already do, but to give them opportunities to discover everything they can still do.”
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