Quotes about Competence

We need to start evaluating people based on their abilities and not on their sex or other congenital characteristics.

We master the technique of our jobs.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Almost seventy-five percent of our leaders have come right out of Willow. These are people who have proven their character, competence, and chemistry fit while serving in volunteer positions within our ministry.

The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.

Collaborative governance needs to be more than calling on the advice and competence of others to make up for our episcopal shortcomings. Rather, governance involves seeking how God is revealing his work through others in the community.

This does not mean that the knowledge of the world, church history, theology, philosophy, and the Scriptures is without value. Such knowledge can be very useful.[105] But it is not central. Theological competence and a high-voltage intellect alone do not qualify a person to serve in God's house.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

Mediocre is merely a failed attempt to be really good.

The business model should be such that the employees needed possess the lowest possible level of skill necessary to fulfill the functions for which each is intended.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.