Competency Evaluation Quotes

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

I never look at scores or anything.

It is up to each voter to evaluate honesty and competency in a factual, therefore fair way.

Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.

A 'competence' that has no defined borders cannot be called a true competence.

Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

Never assume that simply having a gun makes you a marksman. You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are a musician because you own a guitar.

The hubris of imagining that one can judge merit, as distinguished from judging behavior and performance, can be seen in attempts of educators to grade students according to how well they used their own ability, rather than how well they performed relative to some fixed standard or to other students.

I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas.