Competency Assessment Quotes

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

You don’t have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

Your employee should have superior technical skills than you. If he doesn't, it means you have hired the wrong person.

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.

There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?

Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.

Either an executive can do his job or he can't.

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

When there are hiring decisions and promotion decisions to be made, people are hungry for data.

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

Would you rather have an overachieving 3-Star, or an underachieving 5-Star?

If you're the best then take the test!

Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high.

It is also absolutely necessary that the examinations should be competitive, and the appointments given to those who are most successful. A mere pass examination never, in the long run, does more than exclude absolute dunces.

For many activities, people cannot rely solely on themselves in evaluating their ability level because such judgments require inferences from probabilistic indicants of talent about which they may have limited knowledge. Self-appraisals are, therefore, partly based on the opinions of others who presumably possess evaluative competence

Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.

The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.

The test of true competence is the end result.

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

In any business, there are facilities that excel at what they do and others that need improvement and further training.

Ability is not always gauged by examination.