Quotes About Expertise

You are only as good as the technical proficiency of your athletes.

forensic specialists in the world, and endure for life. No one could apply; one

I've overseen over 150 presidentially declared disasters. I know what I'm doing, and I think I do a pretty darn good job of it.

To be successful, you need to mobilize the energy of many others in your organization. If you do the right things, then your vision, your expertise, and your drive can propel you forward and serve as seed crystals.

They must also be expert in the principles of organizational design, business process improvement, and skills development and management.

Awareness. A critical mass of people is aware of the need for change. Diagnosis. You know what needs to be changed and why. Vision. You have a compelling vision and a solid strategy. Plan. You have the expertise to put together a detailed plan. Support. You have sufficiently powerful alliances to support implementation.

A business that looks orderly says to your customer that your people know what they're doing.

Our technological world demands experts and rewards them. Those who consistently deepen their knowledge and skills to become experts will position themselves favorably. But expertise comes at a cost. Reaching expert status requires a level of discipline and dedication that rises far above mere competence.

He was a man of great depth but of limited breadth, so that while he knew very little, he knew a great deal about it.

No field of knowledge is so transparently simple as another's

The more you can learn and the more knowledge you can retain, the more effective you'll become at what it is you choose to do.

This message is so simple, yet it gets forgotten. The people living with the condition are the experts.

Figure 1-1 THE PHYSICIAN-AS-EXPERT MODEL.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.'s in man's ignorance.

He says that everything a cook needs to know—everything, mind you—is contained in five books: Escoffier, Larousse, Hering's Dictionary, La Repetoire. I tell him that's only four. "And Câreme," he says. He pauses. "No one wants.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Pilots sometimes called this "the 200th hour" – when you knew just enough, and were confident enough, to make your first really big fuck-up.

if you don't know what you're talking about, then don't talk, or at least say you don't know.

Acting, in his view, was the greater and more important legal skill.

he acceded to anyone who seemed to know more about any issue he didn't care about,

Almost all the professionals who were now set to join him were coming face to face with the fact that it appeared he knew nothing. There was simply no subject, other than perhaps building construction, that he had substantially mastered.

But not only didn't he read, he didn't listen. He preferred to be the person talking. And he trusted his own expertise—no matter how paltry or irrelevant—more than anyone else's. What's more, he had an extremely short attention span, even when he thought you were worthy of attention.

Nobody had a political background. Nobody had a policy background. Nobody had a legislative background.