Definition
Strategic Breadth
Strategic breadth means selecting adjacent skills that unlock leverage in your existing work. At Uber, when designers learned basic SQL to pull their own data, they stopped waiting three days for analytics and started making decisions based on real data pulled in ten minutes. Not collecting random skills. Building capabilities that eliminate your actual bottlenecks.
This term is part of the Generalista glossary for UX and product professionals adapting to AI-accelerated workflows.