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With planning and determination you, too, can make yourself either super-competent or super-incompetent.
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36 |
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Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to incompetence: they merely gossip about incompetence to mask their envy of employees who have Pull.
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42 |
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Pull will speed your upward promotion through the hierarchy. It can bring you to your level [of incompetence] much sooner.
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45 |
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… all employees, aggressive or shy… must sooner or later come to rest at their level of incompetence.
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47 |
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…the machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies, riddled through and through with incompetence.
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58 |
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…scarcely an employee is content to remain at his level of competence: he insists on rising to a level that is beyond his powers.
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68 |
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…the life of an organization and the company can go bankrupt, a government can fall, a civilization can crumble into barbarism, while the incompetents work on.
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…in most cases of incompetence, there appears to be a definite wish to be productive. The employee would be competent if he could.
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Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
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93 |
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The competent employee normally keeps on his desk just the books, papers and apparatus that he needs for his work.
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