If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.
Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.
Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything.
By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.
Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
Competence is a great creator of confidence.
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
The test of true competence is the end result.
Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.
One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.
The five C's of expanding your capacity. 1. Build your confidence. 2. Expand your connections. 3. Improve your competence. 4. Strengthen your character. If character is not strengthening your capacity is weakening. We need to check our leadership for leaks. 5. Increase your commitment.
There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.
Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.
Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.
To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.
Knowledge is great. Competence is great. But the combination of both encourages people to trust you and increases your powers of enchantment. And in this world, the combination is a breath of fresh air.
True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.
I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.
There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
Competence is the enemy of change!
The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.
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