Quotes About Competence

He possessed a strange facility for the mandatory.

When he'd started out, he'd been vaguely competent, but now political aspirations had set in. Apparently, his wife was the second cousin to King Arthur's maid or something. She felt entitled to a higher station in life.

wouldn't it be easier to just do a competent job than to spend all your time covering your ass?

They are able who think they are able.

Line 130: I never bounced a ball or swung a bat Frankly I too never excelled in soccer and cricket; I am a passable horseman, a vigorous though unorthodox skier, a good skater, a tricky wrestler, and an enthusiastic mountain climber.

The rule here is to go for the largest catchment that your organization has competence to seize.

fundamentally, experience precedes technical knowledge. We

experience precedes technical knowledge.

Overconfidence will negate our technological advantage faster than anything the other guy could do.

Successful people who cannot express themselves well? I can't think of one.

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

Okay, she's tough, but if Miranda were a man…no one would notice anything about her, except how great she is at her job

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

Work is done by those [employees] who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

in most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence." He warned that extremely skilled and productive employees often face criticism, and are fired if they don't start performing worse. Their presence "disrupts and therefore violates the first commandment of hierarchical life: the hierarchy must be preserved.

As individuals we tend to climb to our levels of incompetence. We behave as though up is better and more is better, and yet all around us we see the tragic victims of this mindless escalation.

Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere Mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of Sense, Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence. (Ibid., 11. 77–80)

Dr. Peter observed that one reason so many employees are incompetent is that the skills required to get a job often have nothing to do with what is required to do the job itself. The skills required to run a great political campaign have little to do with the skills required to govern.

Many a man, under the old and the new systems, has made the upward step from candidate to legislator, only to achieve his level of incompetence.

Seorang yang kompeten dalam level tertentu belum tentu kompeten pada level berikutnya

one reason so many employees are incompetent is that the skills required to get a job often have nothing to do with what is required to do the job itself.