What Does Incompetence Mean To Great Leaders Or To Any Organization?--Luciano The Key Santini

Hello and how is all who read my blog and to all those who have subscribed to my postings. Today I would like to start to talk about management. How many times have you or someone you might know been a victim of being punished for  doing a great job in your organization?

I know that this can be a difficult question to answer when you are the victim. I have to tell you that I have talked to so many who are great leaders and because of jealousy or envy or or someone might feel threatened.

Who knows why they do what they do and to be honest you should never feel like a victim if you are doing your job to the best of your ability so at the end who cares!!

What about when a manager gets what they want or a better word get rewarded for doing an incompetent job? Well here is what happens: If other managers believe others who do less then they do will get the same rewards that belief will eventually take over and drain their energy and at the end either leave the company or  become like the rest.

The truth is and I know it has been stated many times over.: Good people do not leave organizations good people leave bad leadership!!!! People need to understand that if someone wants to do a great job they will and if they do not they simply will not period!!

I believe that no matter what anyone does or tries to bring a good person down they will always loose and never achieve the goal to cause misery.  As an individual you should create acceptance of responsibility for your own life, and the development of a workable plan to achieve what you desire.I believe that this will bring some peace and less anxiety and stress when you arrive to this point in your life facing this situation. I have done research and surveys on the Peter Principle and what most managers and leaders have stated is that it becomes very if not unbearably frustrating.

By Bob Sutton

My dad took special delight in the pseudoscientific jargon that Dr. Peter invented to describe the weird and wasteful behaviors displayed by those languishing at their level of incompetence.

 Peter gave absurd and comedic names to the tragic realities of working life. The root of the entire book, the condition of incompetence that Peter called "Final Placement Syndrome," leads some to develop "Abnormal Tabulology" (an "unusual and highly significant arrangement of his desk"). This pathology is manifested, for example, in "Tabulatory Gigantism" (an obsession with having a bigger desk than his colleagues) 

Incompetence," he argued, "knows no barrier of time or place." Dr. Peter observed that one reason so many employees are incompetent is that that the skills required to get a job often have nothing to do with what is required do the job itself. 

The skills required to run a great political campaign have little to do with the skills required to govern. There is nothing about being a great surgeon that prepares a doctor to run a hospital. 

Learning to be a great litigator in no way prepares a lawyer to run a law firm. Many organizations, from hospitals to law firms, use such standards to select new leaders—yet devote little or no attention to their management skills. They often end up with lousy leaders and lose their best individual performers. These observations remain just as true in 2015 as they did in 1969.

The value of actions depends on the courage they require.

Ordinary people who do extraordinary things for others are those we later call heroes. When asked why they performed as they did, they often say, “It was nothing anyone else wouldn’t have done in the circumstances.” Perhaps that’s their way of saying we all have the capacity for greatness. It is only when we are severely tested that we rise to the occasion and perform at the highest levels of our competence. 

You become a person who does the right things when presented with great opportunities the same way you achieve success at anything: through force of habit. If you make it a practice to take the appropriate action even when it seems unimportant and insignificant, you will do the right thing — without thinking — in important situations. If you let your actions speak for you, you will never have to worry about others recognizing your contribution.