When the Motley Full Money Extra, I'm Chris Hill.

When looking for great leadership at an organization, is it possible to have too much experience?

Someone with a lot of experience can lean on the intuition that comes from having all that

experience.

On the other hand, someone with less experience is probably more likely to depend on the

data that comes from testing a lot of ideas.

Adam Grant is a professor at the Wharton School of Business and author of the best-selling

book, Originals, How Non-Conformists Move the World.

According to Grant, Deep Expertise does not always translate into being a great leader.

The core job of a leader is to come up with original ideas and make them happen, right?

That's the only way that you can succeed in a competitive world is by thinking differently

from everyone else.

One of the traps of having a lot of deep expertise in one area is that you get entrenched, you get

stuck in familiar assumptions, you take for granted things that need to be questioned, and

it's often people with the broadest knowledge outside their domain that are the most original.

Look at fashion houses.

If you look at the most innovative fashion collections that come out over a couple decades,

what you see is they come from directors who have the most experience, not just a traveling

abroad, but working abroad in countries different from their own.

If you're a leader, it's not that helpful if you're American to like go take a trip to

Canada, right?

Although it may help the Canadian economy.

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