Showing posts with label Undercover Boss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Undercover Boss. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The Need for Competence

Competence is a requirement for anyone who wants others to follow her. Far too often we watch in horror as someone botches the job for the entire group because of incompetence in leading them.

Does this sound familiar? If so I need your story. 

I recently watched Undercover Boss, a current reality series on television. Each week the bigwig of a large company goes undercover, working at entry-level jobs. I have seen them package goods for shipping, make sandwiches, run a PowerPoint for a college class, and lead dancing on a cruise ship. In every case the boss wasn’t particularly competent!