Becoming an Industry Expert: Watching Out for #1
Kyle James,
.eduGuru,
Dec 21, 2009
There's a difference between being an expert and being perceived as one that this column does not draw. The advice, it seems to me, is centred almost entirely on how to be perceived as an expert. And, in my view, the last thing this field needs is more people who are perceived as experts, but who are not. It is a field, it seems to me, awash self-boosters and self-promoters. And when the author says, "others don't know that you are the expert in something unless you make it a point to say so," let me respond, if someone claims to be an expert, that's when I begin to doubt their expertise. Real experts do their talking through their work.
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