I loved this book. Even though I am not a particular fan of 'big idea' books, Range had me hooked from beginning to end. The reason for this is that it honestly goes beyond the surface idea of generalists being useful and attempts to figure out why generalism works, how you could train people to become generalists and how you can get generalists to shine in an organization. This is done in true interdisciplinary fashion: by jumping across fields and connecting the dots between psychology, cognitive science, organizational science and economics.

This book comes as a strong recommendation to generalists worldwide (even the closeted types), those who happen to work in interdisciplinary education, those who believe that education should be about recipes, flowcharts and checklists (boo) and those who are doing or thinking something else entirely, because you never know what may happen if you play around with a new idea.