Description Naveen Jain outlines two reasons why opportunities for disruptive change are coming from cross-pollination of expertise,versus single,narrow bands:

-Experts in a given field are constrained by myopic thinking:There will always be a need for specialization, but Jain believes that the best ideas come from those not immersed in the details of a particular field.

-Information in abundance across all fields.The digital revolution “puts more power and knowledge into the hands of non-experts,” Jain writes.“Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing,which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers.


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