Military generals aren’t called generals because they are specialists. People at the top need to be generalists to delegate individual issues to whatever specialist is best able to handle them.
Thus, someone who has excellent people skills but does not like learning technical details would not see the most success (only a middling level) as a used car salesperson, or any technical product salesperson and would rather be providing sales training, communication training services, courses, consulting, writing books.
Teaching and negotiating are both people skills but they aren’t the same skill. There are people who aren’t good at teaching but who are good at selling.
Military generals aren’t called generals because they are specialists.
This is true only in the sense that they aren’t called generals because they are pianos.
I hate argument-by-folk-etymology. From Wikipedia:
The adjective general had been affixed to officer designations since the late medieval period to indicate relative superiority or an extended jurisdiction.
Military generals aren’t called generals because they are specialists. People at the top need to be generalists to delegate individual issues to whatever specialist is best able to handle them.
Teaching and negotiating are both people skills but they aren’t the same skill. There are people who aren’t good at teaching but who are good at selling.
This is true only in the sense that they aren’t called generals because they are pianos.
I hate argument-by-folk-etymology. From Wikipedia: