Competencies Quotes

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

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Knowing, Important

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• The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes.

  Andy Stanley

  Effectiveness, Leader, Steps

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.17, Multnomah

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• Know your core competencies and focus on being great at them. Pay up for people in your core competencies. Get the best. Outside the core competencies, hire people that fit your culture but are cheap.

  Mark Cuban

  People, Focus, Culture

  "How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It". Book by Mark Cuban, November 20, 2011.

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• We all have different competencies. Some of us are intellectually gifted, some of us athletically gifted, some of us are great listeners. Everyone has a different level of what they can do.

  Michele Bachmann

  Different, Levels, Gifted

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

  Stephen Covey

  Keys, Ability, Grows

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.

  Peter Drucker

  Believe, Leader, Done

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

  Charlie Munger

  Knows, Ifs, Edges

  BRK Annual Meeting, Morning Session, buffett.cnbc.com. May 6, 2006.

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• But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Teamwork, Important, Common

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• Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Beauty, Truth, Work

  Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1969). “The Peter Principle”

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• 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

  Age, Growing, Thrive

  "Forget Lean and Agile. It's Time to Be Anticipatory" by Daniel Burrus, www.wired.com. August, 2014.

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• 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

  Mean, Cutting, Loss

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

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Hair, White

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [5]

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

  Jason Hartman

  Consistency, Promise, Quality

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• Authority does not equal competency.

  Andy Stanley

  Doe, Authority, Equal

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• Living is giving. We live life best as we give our strengths, gifts, and competencies in the service of God's mission. We are called to serve, not survive. Our giving makes a difference in our families, our work, our community, our world, and our church.

  Kennon Callahan

  Live Life, Our World, Differences

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• Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.

  Daniel Goleman

  Leadership, Wisdom, Careers

  Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2013). “Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence”, p.101, Harvard Business Press

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• Who a person is will ultimately determine if their brains, talents, competencies, energy, effort, deal-making abilities, and opportunities will succeed.

  Henry Cloud

  Opportunity, Effort, Brain

  Henry Cloud (2009). “Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

  Daniel Goleman

  Skills, Empathy, Important

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Working With Emotional Intelligence”, p.137, Bantam

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

  Andy Stanley

  Decision, Doe, Authority

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• We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

  Daniel Goleman

  Children, Ranking, Helping

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.74, Bantam

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• Pray Meditate Be aware.Stay awake Bow Practise yoga Feel Chant and sing Breathe and smile Relax.Enjoy.Laugh.Play Create.Envision Let Go/Forgive.Accept Walk.Exercise.Move Work.Serve.Contribute Listen/Learn.Enquire Consider.Reflect Cultivate oneself.Enhance competencies Cultivate contentment Cultivate flexibility Cultivate friendship and collaboration Lighten up Celebrate and appreciate Dream Give thanks Evolve Love Share.Give.Receive Walk softly.Live gently Expand.Radiate.Dissolve Simplify Surrender.Trust Be born anew

  Surya Das

  Letting Go, Dream, Buddhist

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• He is not poor who has a competency.

  Horace

  Poor

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• In the new workplace, with its emphasis on flexibility, teams and a strong customer orientation, this crucial set of emotional competencies is becoming increasingly essential for excellence in every job in every part of the world.

  Daniel Goleman

  Strong, Jobs, Team

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Working With Emotional Intelligence”, p.29, Bantam

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• 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

  Luck, Degrees, Different

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• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Doe, Add

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