From experience with staff of different levels of expertise, the points seem to hold true, e.g.: Reaching out to other people - generally true that staff w. gr

From experience with staff of different levels of expertise, the points seem to hold true, e.g.: Reaching out to other people - generally true that staff w. greater expertise are more likely and comfortable doing so; Form elegant abstractions - also true: experts more likely than newbies to be able to find a simple way to describe something that is built on sufficient complexity to cause at least some bafflement. Also, for staff of a similar degree of experience and role, I have a greater degree of confidence in the outputs produced by those who can answer more searching questions, showing they have drilled down to the fundamentals. I suspect that this type of person is more likely to develop into a real expert than those who adopt the how without caring about the why. Experts may be better at ensuring that the substance of an objective is delivered rather than just the form.