Quotes About Competence

I'm not stupid, stupid. Leave this whole thing in my extremely capable and well-manicured hands. I'll call you later with an update. Bye!

He put the good old cup of tea softly on the table by my bed, and I took a refreshing sip. Just right, as usual. Not too hot, not too sweet, not to weak, not too strong, not too much milk, and not a drop spilled in the saucer. A most amazing cove, Jeeves. So dashed competent in every respect.

The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.

Ultimately leadership boils down to a relationship. High-quality relationships are based on trust—trust of one anothers' competence as well as character.

He dreamed big dreams - impossible dreams they told him. Then he moved heaven and earth to make his dreams come true. When you, as a leader, start with a vision, then communicate that vision to the people you lead, utilize your people skills to motivate and inspire them, maintain your character and integrity at every decision-point, command with competence, lead with boldness and confidence, and support your people with your serving heart, your vision will become your reality.

Why, Hurst couldn't have hit the side of Westminster Abbey with a pistol, even by throwing the silly thing.

If you are going to work with Jamie, do what you say you are going to do. The people he attracts and, more importantly, that he is attracted to are people who clearly get things done

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident

15 per cent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 per cent is due to skill in human engineering

that it was produced and preserved by competent human beings who were at least as intelligent and devout as we are today. I assume that they were quite capable of accurately interpreting their own experience and of objectively presenting what they heard and experienced in the language of their historical community, which we today can understand with due diligence.

Sans compétence, la bravoure était suicidaire. Il y avait des règles de survie à respecter. Des règles ancestrales.

well-directed though is a learned skill

It doesn't matter what you do, only how well you do it.

In the months since Challenger, Baedecker had found it hard to believe that the country had ever flown so frequently and competently into space. The long hiatus of earthbound doubt in which nothing flew had become the normal state of things to Baedecker, mixing in his own mind with a dreary sense of heaviness, of entropy and gravity triumphant.

The whiskey never seemed to compromise the man's competence

many people with IQs of 160 work for people with IQs of 100, if the former have poor intrapersonal intelligence and the latter have a high one.

The sweet spot for smart decisions, then, comes not just from being a domain expert, but also from having high self-awareness.

people with high IQs can be stunningly poor pilots of their private lives.

selection focuses almost exclusively on intellectual abilities, emotional intelligence carries much more weight than IQ in determining who emerges as a leader.

practical intelligence is rarely the main factor in a star's outstanding job performance.

Good work involves the intertwining of three features: excellence, engagement, and ethics. Good work is technically excellent work—people know what they're doing. It's personally engaging and meaningful. They want to do it. They look forward to going to work. They don't dread it. And it's carried out in an ethical way.

At the very highest levels, competence models for leadership typically consist of anywhere from 80 to 100 percent EI-based abilities.

las capacidades de la IE (más que el coeficiente intelectual o las habilidades técnicas) se presentan como la competencia «determinante»

los modelos de competencia ponen claramente de relieve el gran peso que desempeñan cuestiones no académicas como la empatía