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Which Expertise Is the Most Valuable?
You need the ability to identify the expertise that offer the best chance of success, compared with the time, energy, effort and resources you need to spend acquiring it. I define the most valuable expertise as high-leverage expertise and, fortunately, it’s only a small part of all the expertise in an area of work. But how does a person identify the high-leverage expertise of a particular field? When we asked masters which expertise gave the highest leverage in their fields or markets, they said it was:
    the fundamental concepts and principles
    the significant patterns
    the best processes, tools, and technology.

The High-Leverage Expertise of Management is complex work, and mastering its expertise is difficult. Peter F. Drucker defines high-leverage management expertise as the capability to do these things:
    Make people capable of joint/team performance.
    Make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
    Enable the enterprise and each of its members to grow and develop as needs and opportunities change.
    Build performance into the organization—think through, set, and exemplify objectives, values, and goals.

What Are the Most Powerful Ways to Learn Expertise?
Even when they focused on learning the high-leverage expertise of their fields or markets, the great achievers knew that they were still limited by time and the limits of their minds. So they found four powerful learning processes that allowed them to make the most of their limits:
    Devote quality time to learning.
    Manage the thoughts that occupy your mind.
    Use deep processing.
    Learn in the pursuit of opportunity.

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