Competency Quotes

“Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.”
― Tim Fargo

“Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, it's a no-win situation. And if you dare to mention it, no matter how creatively you phrase your complaints, you are shunned as a whiner.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“One competent go-getter is worth One Hundred incompetent do-nothings. - Kailin Gow, On Hiring a Winning Team”
― Kailin Gow

“Your driver is on the steer, driving you and you can feel free to doze in the car; this is trust built on competence. Competence is to ensure that your actions put people's hearts at ease when things are in your hands.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Dare to be competent. Competency is what makes everyone remain at peace when things are being handled by you. Watch yourself if everyone feels uncomfortable just because it’s you doing it.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“Believe in yourself and relief yourself of the undue anxiety of feelings of incompetency. Leave worry aside and live with the hope that your dominion is not determined by people’s negative opinions!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“A good manager instills staff with self-confidence, teaches them to believe in themselves and helps them to realise their brilliance. Do not ever treat your staff with disrespect. It is competent until proven incompetent; not incompetent til proven competent.”
― Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

“The organization's long-term success is based on a set of differentiated capabilities and its core competency.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency

“A little conflict can create a lot of creativity.”
― Richie Norton

“When leaders lack expertise, nothing else works”
― Captain VS Parani, Golden Stripes - Leadership on the High Seas

“The competency of people you mobilize to work with will determine the output you will receive. As a leader, always look for people who buy into your vision.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Anything you can do, but the computer can do it better than you. That's not a skill!”
― Rafaa Khiari

“The organization’s competency is based on a set of cohesive capabilities and how fast and effective they can be built upon.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency

“The search for better, for more competent men, from the presidents of our great companies down to our household servants, was never more vigorous than it is now. And more than ever before is the demand for competent men in excess of the supply.

What we are all looking for, however, is the readymade, competent man; the man whom some one else has trained. It is only when we fully realize that our duty, as well as our opportunity, lies in systematically cooperating to train and to make this competent man, instead of in hunting for a man whom some one else has trained, that we shall be on the road to national efficiency.

In the past the prevailing idea has been well expressed in the saying that “Captains of industry are born, not made”; and the theory has been that if one could get the right man, methods could be safely left to him. In the future it will be appreciated that our leaders must be trained right as well as born right, and that no great man can (with the old system of personal management) hope to compete with a number of ordinary men who have been properly organized so as efficiently to cooperate.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men; and under systematic management the best man rises to the top more certainly and more rapidly than ever before.”
― Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management

“Woman's competency is the entirety and the fullness of the instinctive spirit within her all kinds of love that a man is naturally not capable of that. It is the highest power within the weakest-power, only to understand and realize the strength of the woman.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Our competence to excel in life depends on our ability to do what we can do.”
― Sijin Bt

“A Sentient Incompetent employee is preferable to one who is Insentient Competent”
― Sudhir Warier, Competency Management - A Practitioners Handbook

“I started first by building a skills inventory of each team member (learning about competencies) and worked with them individually identifying their strengths and weaknesses.”
― Allan R. Cohen, Influence Without Authority

“I predict: Discernment will become the number one leadership competency of the century — the age of misinformation.

Discernment is a learnable skill.

The ability and skill to prepare and create what is yet to come is discernment.”
― Richie Norton

“Your vote; your power! But remember, "in the hands of an incompetent and clueless representative", that power brings nothing but ruins. So vote wisely.”
― Olawale Daniel