Kicking things off...

The following are some definitions of the term "generalist". I think they apply nicely to those of us who bear this label the IT world.

• a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests... from http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

• A person with a broad general knowledge, especially one with more than superficial knowledge in several areas and the ability to combine ideas from diverse fields... from http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/generalist

• A generalist species is able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a variety of different resources... from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalist_(ecology)