Competence.

[I Robot]

Extract for Dave A's article on Competence:

The shortage that I think our nation is suffering from is far more sinister, debilitating and generally bad for medium to long term prospects than something as relatively uncomplicated as money. What we are desperately short of is competence. And it's starting to cost us dear.

Discuss this article here.

[duncan drennan]

I really enjoyed the article and decided to Digg It

If you want to expose this to millions of people get over there and Digg It right now! Let me know if you can't figure out how to

[Dave A]

I struggled to find it until I used the search tool with keyword competence.

Interesting site!

[entoserv]

I don't know about Digg - but this needs to get to our masters of rhetoric.

Is rhetoric a buzzword?

[duncan drennan]

Use this link to get straight through to it - come on let's see if we can Digg it enough to push it onto the landing pages!

http://digg.com/search?s=organizational+competence

Just click on the "digg it" link (just below the digg counter). You'll be presented with the option to login or register. Follow the registration process and viola!
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Guy Kawasaki had a post on his blog about using Digg to generate traffic. The post can be found here, http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/09/..._use_digg.html

Here’s a good example. This is my traffic log for the first few weeks of September. The spike of 37,366 page views on September 8th is purely because a blog posting appeared on the home page of Digg.

Sorry if I'm derailing this thread!!

You can also add "Digg this!" links to your site/blog/articles etc. As on Guy's blog. Seems like a good way to try to get some exposure - I'll be trying to set this up with my next blog posting and see what the results are.

[MarieAnnetta]

I have been reading an instructive book called 'Poor Charlie's Almanack' written by Charlie Munger Vice-Chair of Berkshire. The book is filled with straight, down-the-line workable methodologies. ( I hate rambling tomes of unworkable theories, written by some professor who's only seen the end of his nose - never mind life in a company!)

Competence is a critical factor in Mr Munger's book and he berates those that love shoddiness.

The competent person feels at total peace. They know how to get the thing done - correctly and intelligently. Nice place to be I should think!

[adrianh]

The competent person feels at total peace.

So you are saying a competent person is the one that's high on dope.

They know how to get the thing done - correctly and intelligently.

Good one, then the rest of humanity, 99.99999% of us, who learn through our mistakes and succeed at failure, including Henry Ford & Thomas Edison are incompetent - great news, now I've just learned that we're all the same, except of course for the "competent people" who don't make 10,000 mistake and invent a light bulb!

eish....or as my daughter would say "joooo"

[Dave A]

Eish... Be gentle on the noobs

Although I'd hesitate to agree that competence necessarily brings a sense of peace. I've seen perfectly competent people stressed out of their minds.

There's no stress in not giving a damn...

[wynn]

There's no stress in not giving a damn...

I also like competence but you have to balance your expectations.

Also known as a 'low f^@k it threshold'

[adrianh]

In a country where nurses and teachers strike & run amok, where school kids toi, toi, refuse to write exams and demand 25% given to them for free, where a policeman "accidentally" shoots a matric pupil dead during a school kid strike because he doesn't realize that bullets ricochet, where 9 kids are killed on the way to a school with no teachers - to be taken to a hospital with no nurses...

...you say the problem is that "people are not being paid their worth" and that is why people are not training appies....

Ooookkk, I think that the South African youth are lazy and stupid and I also think that the majority of adults are lazy and stupid. They want democracy with no responsibility, they want degrees and diplomas with no education, they want housing without paying for services, they want electricity but steal the cables, they want salary increases but less work, they want, they want, they demand....

The country is not training appies because the youth are too good to be trained, they want to walk into a job and earn R15K a month. They want a 51% share in a business that they didn't build and don't understand. How do you teach a man to fish if he wants a golden fishing pole, for you to bait the hook and then pull in the fish for him when it bites (while that same man is peeing in the river and selling the fishing tackle on the sly)

It's very simple, if they don't want to learn then they can stay at home - their parents have earned the democratic right for them to sit on their butts on a street corner and smoke dope rather than going to school and taking responsibility for their own lives.