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3 Steps to Thrive as a Generalist

15 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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Ashish Kothari gives early-career generalists three steps to build credibility fast: identify concrete contributions from past roles, get feedback from 5-10 former colleagues about your impact, then craft a narrative that translates those wins into your new company's language.

But what if you're like, literally, you've just joined and you know you're a generalist? So you're not leading a team.
Yeah.
Right? You're not leading a function. What are some 3 simple things that they could do now?
3 things that you can do. One thing is you really need to know your value. And this is the problem. Generalists are defined externally all the time. So the one thing that I always ask people to do is ask 5 to 10 colleagues that you've worked with in the past, what's your value? What did you do for them? Yeah.