Quotes About Competency

#1. You can't make good decisions that are going to be meaningful, productive, when you lose control, and you have to maintain mental control, emotional control and to be able to perform physically up to your own particular level of competency; you have to keep your emotions under control.

John Wooden

#2. The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.

Herodotus

#3. Politics in Bolivia must combine social consciousness with professional competency. In my administration, intellectuals from the upper class can be cabinet ministers or ambassadors, as can members of Indian ethnic groups.

Evo Morales

#4. An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

Mark Twain

#5. He is not poor who has a competency.

Horace

#6. Developing leaders who can navigate complexity is now a strategic priority - and, if done well, a competitive advantage. Beyond developing competency and capability, we need to develop leaders with courage and compassion, consciousness and character.

Robert J. Anderson

#7. Delegation requires the willingness to pay for short term failures in order to gain long term competency.

Dave Ramsey

#8. A strategic board has a view of looking ahead, an insight to look deeper, and competency to look beyond.

Pearl Zhu

#9. So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.

Frederick Jackson Turner

#10. It is now widely believed (and, I think, correctly believed) that the survival of a nation under modern competitive conditions depends on broadening the electorate's competency in numerate matters. Numeracy

Garrett Hardin

#11. We as a human community need to develop a new competency. We need to move from a single-cell social organism to a multicellular social organism. While making this evolutionary leap is no easy task, staring into the abyss is a strong motivator.

David Gershon

#12. Your personal brand is a promise to your clients ... a promise of quality, consistency, competency, and reliability.

Jason Hartman

#13. The best medicine that a person can have is the knowledge and experience that he can swim through every tide and change of the time. If you have the mental competency to deal with every situation that arises, then you are very happy, very healthy and a very well-balanced person.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#14. The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation.

Pearl Zhu

#15. Never outsource your core competency.

Tony Hsieh

#16. The digital capability is modular, dynamic, and nonlinear, having many visible and invisible business elements, for improving organizational competency, and enabling business strategy.

Pearl Zhu

#17. What excites the media is that someone has a great idea or vision and makes millions as a result. The reality is that rarely happens. It is competency that unlocks a person's potential.
Tim Clark excerpt from DO! the pursuit of xceptional execution

Kevin Kelly

#18. To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency - how to accurately anticipate the future.

Daniel Burrus

#19. Perfection is a feeling; you'll know it if you've ever questioned the competency of your penmanship before writing on the first page of a new notebook.

Louise Gornall

#20. If you want to feel secure, do what you already know how to do. If you want to be a true professional and continue to grow ... Go to the cutting edge of your competency, which means a temporary loss of security. So whenever you don't quite know what you're doing, know you're growing.

Madeline Hunter

#21. creativity is the single most important leadership competency

Anonymous

#22. Competency is a basic value. It is not a means to some other end, such as wealth or position, although such results may occur.

Timothy J. Keller

#23. White trash had a way of finding their graves. Along with wife beating and beer sucking, dying was probably their only core competency.

J.R. Ward

#24. Let's see
a prince defending your honor with his vast vocabulary and political competency
okay, maybe. But a rogue defending you with fists and bladed weaponry? No contest there!

Marcia Lynn McClure

#25. The organization's competency is based on a set of cohesive capabilities and how fast and effective they can be built upon.

Pearl Zhu

#26. When a man is to travel into a far country ... one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of staves would be troublesome. Thus a competency of these outward things may happily help us in the way to heaven, whereas abundance may be hurtful.

Richard Sibbes

#27. It is important to strengthen the weakest link, to ensure all important business elements integrated and knitted into ongoing organizational capabilities and unique business competency.

Pearl Zhu

#28. Applying creative thinking to our clients' business strategy-this should be our industry's new core competency. And-in what is very good news for our industry-this kind of creativity, creativity that goes to the heart of business, is more in-demand than ever.

Bob Schmetterer

#29. Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.

Stephen Covey

#30. Decision-making is a solid business capability to improve business responsiveness, agility, and competency.

Pearl Zhu

#31. What I am or am not wearing does not correlate with my competency as a professional, a mother, or a feminist role model. My clothes don't define me and neither does my nakedness. I define me.

Miya Yamanouchi

#32. I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.

Heather Bresch

#33. It's not a competency if you don't know the edge of it.

Charlie Munger

#34. Death to Core Competency," suggests that whatever a company's specialty product or service might be - whatever got you to where you are today - might not be the thing that gets you to the next level.

Warren Berger

#35. Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.

Warren Buffett

#36. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

William Shakespeare

#37. Having to face him at a competency hearing is like getting to hell and finding out that the only food available is raw liver-insult added to injury.

Jodi Picoult

#38. Video Games Rewards of the self are a defining component in video games, as players seek to master the skills needed to pursue their quest. Leveling up, unlocking special powers, and other game mechanics fulfill a player's desire for competency by showing progression and completion.

Nir Eyal

#39. A core competency is a combination and harmonization of multiple capabilities with a focus.

Pearl Zhu

#40. The organization's long-term success is based on a set of differentiated capabilities and its core competency.

Pearl Zhu

#41. The right set of unique digital capabilities directly decides the overall organization's competency and growth potential, to build high-effective, high-responsive, high-intelligent and high mature digital organization.

Pearl Zhu

#42. I have no people reporting to me and don't expect to. My competency is in the tech realm.

Anders Hejlsberg

#43. Affirmative action benefits NO ONE. It discriminates against Asian American and White students, while promoting negative stereotypes about the competency of African American students -- that they only got in because of their race, not merit.

Vijay Jojo Chokal-Ingam

#44. Initially, your vision will exceed your competency.

Andy Stanley

#45. My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive your eye from this conflict to that intrigue, ending with a caprice. That is a montage, that is editing. It became a flipbook in later generations.

Billy Zane

#46. The ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust is the key professional and personal competency of our time.

Stephen Covey

#47. Soul competency is not the voice of a dean celebrating the latest lesbian at his divinity school; it is the voice of R. G. Lee thundering 'Payday Someday!

Russell D. Moore

#48. We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from the drag of continued indebtedness to others, was all we coveted.

Edmund Morris

#49. To be an objective leader means aligning your models with the needs of the organization. There is no question anymore that collaboration, seeking out diverse perspectives and developing new ways to look at challenges and opportunities, is a key leadership competency.

Elizabeth Thornton

#50. The digital capability is synthetic in nature, embedding agility in processes and focusing on building the long-term business competency.

Pearl Zhu

#51. If a leader demonstrates competency, genuine concern for others, and admirable character, people will follow.

Richard Chase

#52. This chapter reviews the knowledge and practice that social workers need to establish beginning competency in working with transgender and gender nonconforming persons.

Gerald P. Mallon

#53. And several bystanders - the innkeeper, assorted security personnel, probably a nurse or two, all terrified into competency by my grandfather's rage - stood

Tea Obreht

#54. Passion plus competency, not just competency alone, is key to securing employment.

Richard N. Bolles

#55. Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have.

Stephen Covey

#56. And since even the thought of winter precipitation caused the majority of drivers to lose any shred of competency they might own, she spent most of her trip avoiding, leapfrogging over, and cursing every cab and commuter. The

J.D. Robb

#57. Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.

Andy Stanley

#58. Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation.

Gerald Chertavian

#59. He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.

Nick Hornby

#60. Tim believes that entrepreneurship isn't based on an idea or a plan, or even a model - it is based on having a strong competency in something. The way to overcome fear, he claims, is by testing your competency.

Kevin Kelly

#61. Recruiting is a core competency for any company. It should never be outsourced.

Peter Thiel

#62. No one is an overachiever. How can you rise above your level of competency? Everyone is an underachiever to different degrees. The harder you work, the more luck you will have.

John Wooden

#63. What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#64. It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

Alan Greenspan

#65. I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency in business, although it's one that we don't pay enough attention to.

Bran Ferren

#66. It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.

Charles Sturt

#67. My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

Brendon Burchard

#68. I think most polling shows that most Americans agree that when it comes to employment that, you know, people should be really judged by, you know, their competency and not, you know, who it is they choose to love or who they're in a relationship with.

Mark Takano

#69. We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a special area of competency and focus on that.

Charlie Munger

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.

Terry Pratchett

#73. 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