Not a villain, but it sure sounds like a Daffy Duck-ism. My late father used this phrase all the time, in a jokey way, toward us kids. He was a huge fan of the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons, so maybe that's a possibility? Response by poster: OP here. Thanks for all the suggestions so far, but I don't think any of these are it. Several of the characters may have said it once or twice e. Lex Luthor , but the character I'm looking for used this as a catch-phrase, repeatedly. And, to clarify, I searched for both "I am surrounded by incompetence" and "I am surrounded by incompetents".
Both are fairly common phrases, in wide use. My guess is that the cartoon brought this into the public mind, but I could be wrong. After all, I remembering this from my single-digit years. Is that it? Justice at AM on January 29, One solution might be to change the company hierarchy. Shue, for instance, suggests that more companies consider different kinds of promotions, rather than the typical career ladder in which you move from subordinate to manager.
She says that some companies have also started to offer two forms of appraisal — a performance review and a management potential review, which considers more specifically the skills that are necessary for leadership. David Robson is the author of The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes , which explores cutting-edge research on the best ways to improve our decision making and learning.
Collective Intelligence. The reasons why people become incompetent at work. Share using Email. By David Robson. Why are so many people so bad at what they do? Every employee tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence — Laurence J Peter. High levels of incompetence Perhaps spurred on by the financial crisis — and the flawed decision making behind it — much work on the Peter Principle has been conducted within the last decade. Managers who used to be very high-performing sales workers tended not to bring a significant boost to their colleagues.
When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away. Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles. Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous. Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other.
It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power. Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy. Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song.
That's my job. As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and are self-serving. A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence. Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret. The price of loyalty is incompetence.
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise. I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm. One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not. The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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And in on time. Peter, The Peter Principle. Nor to teach them anything. It made me want to do my own work in my own way and let myself be torn to pieces if necessary. Bush to the degree that Ketchum did, but she thought the president was a smirking twerp and a dumbed-down daddy's boy, and she agreed with Ketchum's assessment that Bush would be as worthless as wet crap in even the smallest crisis.
If a fight broke out between two small dogs, for example, Ketchum claimed that Bush would call the fire department and ask them to bring a hose; then the president would position himself at a safe distance from the dogfight, and wait for the firemen to show up. The part Pam liked best about this assessment was that Ketchum said the president would instantly look self-important, and would appear to be actively involved--that is, once the firefighters and their hose arrived, and provided there was anything remaining of the mess the two dogs might have made of each other in the interim.
It is that all men should be equal, and in consequence that all inequalities natural as well as artificial should disappear.
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