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The achievement of an effective Substitution will usually… allow the employee to work out the rest of his career, healthy and self-satisfied, at his level of incompetence.
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Creative Incompetence will achieve best results if you choose an area of incompetence which does not directly hinder you in carrying out the main duties of your present position.
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…discover an irrelevant incompetence. Find it and practice it diligently. It will keep you at a level of incompetence and so assure you of the keen personal satisfaction of regularly accomplishing some useful work.
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…the very qualities which at first assured their promotion eventually brought about their incompetence… competence always contains the seeds of incompetence.
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Bachelors’ and masters’ degrees have regressed in value. Only the doctorate still carries any noble aura of competence…
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Educational certificates, diplomas and degrees are losing their value as measures of competence.
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In dealing with incompetence on the civic, national or world-wide scale, the power of negative thinking has great potential.
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The power of negative thinking can help us avoid escalating ourselves to a level of life-incompetence, and so help prevent destruction of the world.
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If we practice negative thinking and creative incompetence, and thereby avoid taking the final step, the possibility of human survival would be enhanced.
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Competence is highly dependent on context.
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