The Importance of Being a Specialist

Warren Packard: I couldn't get it out of my head that I was a generalist. He worked with Dean Obeidallah, an engineer who knew more about dialysis machines than he did. "You suddenly, you realize that there's these things out there that you can make decisions, but there may be something inside you that's preventing you from doing something" Warren went to Stanford for his master's in computer science and then ended up working at Baxter Healthcare Corporation.