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Anatoly Tereshchenko
Ruins of incompetence
A common mistake of amateurs is to start with the difficult and strive for the impossible.
Incompetence is sometimes worse than espionage because of dire consequences.
V. Pirogov
I remember an old case ... Once in the late 1990s. at one of the meetings of the Union of Writers of Russia, when discussing bibliographic publications, in particular “On the Threshold of the 21st Century”, they talked about the dominance of mediocrity in one particular team, the leadership of which consisted of mediocrity, appointed on the basis of personal devotion, while nearby they worked highly intelligent workers - professionals, on whose shoulders lay the entire burden of the institute's problems.
How can a director tolerate this? - asked the author.
But he himself is also one of those appointed not according to his mind, and therefore the effectiveness is low. You know, sometimes I think that incompetence is worse than espionage. She leaves behind ruins in the economy, politics and military affairs, - my friend and colleague Valery Pirogov voiced an interesting idea. - The regrets and dissatisfaction of people who are competent, knowledgeable, able to do better than those who are unworthy and dangerous at the helm of an assigned task, and often throw a working ship on the reefs, cause grins ...
And I thought, maybe here is the answer to the burning question of today: why does a person work like a damned one, but live, to put it mildly, a bit tight, simply - survive? And there are many of them in Russia, even very many.
This idea sunk deep into the author's soul and stuck there like a splinter for several years. And now the time has come when he decided to try to find arguments to confirm the truth in historical research using examples of modern life.
Speaking about the concept of incompetence, one should deal with its antonym - competence. What does she represent? This is, first of all, the availability of knowledge and experience necessary to carry out effective activities in a given subject area - military service or civilian work.
The word "competence" comes from the Latin competens and means "suitable, appropriate, proper". Here you can add such definitions as “capable, knowledgeable, understanding, knowledgeable”, etc. That is, the quality of a person who has comprehensive knowledge in a certain area of \u200b\u200bwork activity and is capable of carrying out real life actions for the benefit of himself, the team and society in in general. In addition, this is the ability of a person, his potential readiness to solve the tasks assigned to him with knowledge of the specific case entrusted to him. With a certain competence, a person is able to make objective judgments and make informed decisions.
From these messages, we have the right to say that incompetence is the opposite of competence in all the subtleties of this concept. It is closely related to such a term as professionalism - the ability to assess the measure of one's incompetence.
Incompetence does not mean that a person is stupid, illiterate or unable to cope with the tasks assigned to him. In another area of work, perhaps, he could have dealt with problems more difficult, but at a particular place, due to various factors: lack of knowledge about the necessary needs, lack of relevant experience, incomplete knowledge to solve the tasks, overestimated self-esteem, painful ambitions and others - he not only becomes an obstacle to achieving the goal, but also damages the cause. The incompetence of a particular specialist is a complex moral and psychological state of one who does not realize that he is not in the right place.
Once Benedict Spinoza, speaking of incompetent workers, noted that when they try to understand the difficulty, they confuse and spoil the matter even more.
There are many cases in life when someone who does not understand something can easily take up an active solution to the problem. Any ruler should beware of keeping such types in his immediate environment. The appointment of such people on the basis of the principle of personal devotion is dangerous for the sovereign by the catastrophe of the entrusted work, and sometimes even by personal defeat.
Such "specialists", especially selected on the basis of personal loyalty, can let their patron down. Such candidates for high positions do not like to talk businesslike, but they certainly want to decide something in their favor. However, "raw" decisions are dangerous due to their unpredictability and the most difficult consequences for the boss and the common cause, and for the team or the country as a whole.
So, professionals build the Titanic, amateurs build Noah's Ark.
The author concretized this very incompetence of some types as a result, as a chain of personnel errors, "kindred elevator" and "telephone law" of those in power in individual characters. He did this through the concept of "phenomenon" - a rare fact, an unusual event, an event that is difficult to comprehend in sensual contemplation.
Anyone who wants to feed the nightingale for his songs must understand the difference between the trills of a bird and slyness in the mouth of the watching authorities and who knows how to plaster well verbally.
This book is dedicated to bungling in the toga of INCOMPETENCE, which is dangerous for any state, especially during periods of military and economic exacerbations and crises.
Peter Principles
One of the branches of the principle of incompetence can serve as such an option. In the mid 1960s. many of my contemporaries enthusiastically transcribed, reprinted and copied the work of the Anglo-American scholar Lawrence Johnston Peter (1919–1990), the then fashionable work, The Peter Principle. In it, he argued that "... in a hierarchical system, each individual tends to rise to the level of his incompetence."
And if it is simpler, then, according to the Peter principle, a person working in any hierarchical association is promoted, i.e., grows until he takes a place where he is unable to cope with his duties. This will be a "plug" for the movement of the team, solving some problem, and a growth slowdown factor for others. "Stuck" will be in this place until it leaves the system into which it accidentally "embedded". As the second option - the system itself can throw it away.
It makes sense to turn to some of his figurative comparisons:
"Cream rises to the top until it's sour."
“For every position in the world there is a person who is unable to correspond to it. With a sufficient number of movements in the service, it will be he who will take this position.
"A journey of a thousand miles is completed with a single step."
"All useful work is done by those who have not yet reached their level of incompetence."
“As soon as an employee has reached the level of incompetence, inertia sets in, and the authorities seek to please this employee instead of firing him and hiring another instead.”
"The individual who occupies the most powerful position in the hierarchy tends to spend all his time on nonsense."
“The higher you climb the hierarchical ladder, the more slippery its steps become.”
“A job you don't like is unpleasant. But the real disaster can be separation from her as a result of your promotion.
“Competent workers who resign themselves are more common than incompetent workers who are fired.”
“The abilities of a potentially competent person are destroyed over time, while a potentially incompetent person rises to a level where this potential is fully realized.”
“In order to avoid mistakes, one must gain experience, and in order to gain experience, one must make mistakes.”
But the error is different error. There are fatal, irreparable, deadly mistakes for those who make them, for those around them, and even for the state.
* * *There is an incompetence of an employee who is appointed through the so-called. pistons - "father's lift", "telephone law", "party corporatism", "hand of advancement", etc.
In the preface to The Peter Principle, or Why Things Go Wrong, one of its authors, Raymond Hull, wrote:
“While working on my articles and essays, I studied the mechanism of the state apparatus, industry, trade, and did not carefully listen to their opinions. I have found that, with a few exceptions, people do their jobs in a tricky way. Everywhere incompetence rages and triumphs... I have witnessed how architect-planners supervised the construction of a city in the floodplain of a large river, where it was doomed to periodic flooding.
I learned with interest that after the completion of the construction of an indoor baseball stadium in Houston, Texas, it was discovered that it was precisely baseball that could not be played there: on sunny days, the shine of the glass roof dazzles the players ...
For incompetence there are no boundaries either in space or in time.
Wellington, studying the list of officers sent to him in Portugal during the campaign of 1810, said: "My only hope is that, having become acquainted with this list, the enemy will tremble just like me."
General Richard Taylor, a veteran of the Civil War, speaking of the Battle of Gettysburg, remarked: "The commanders of the Confederate army were no more familiar with the topography of the area, which is one day's march from Richmond, no more than with the topography of Central Africa."
Robert Lee once complained bitterly, "I can't get my orders to be carried out."
For most of World War II, the British Armed Forces had shells and bombs that were far inferior to the Germans in effectiveness. As early as the beginning of 1940, British scientists knew that a small addition of cheap powdered aluminum would double their explosive power. And yet this knowledge was used only at the end of 1943.
During the same war, an Australian captain of a hospital ship, checking the ship's water tanks after repairs, found that they were painted inside with red lead. The water from these tanks would have poisoned every single one of the ship's inhabitants.
About these cases - and hundreds of similar ones - I read and heard, I saw a lot myself. I came to the conclusion about the general nature of incompetence ...
I find, without the slightest surprise, that the government's family and marriage adviser is a homosexual…”
These examples eloquently testify to the insidiousness of incompetence and its possible dire and even catastrophic consequences.
* * *Incompetence is unacceptable in any field of human activity, but it is especially terrible in areas related to public and personal health.
Once I happened to meet with a classmate Svetlana. We didn't see each other for fifteen or twenty years. Once it was a beautiful athlete, with long legs, with a step from the hip, in a word - a beauty.
Time has no power over you, - I noticed, not finding striking changes in her appearance: the same youthful face, the same energetic gait, not a single gray hair in the blonde's lush blond curls.
What are you, I'm old, I can't look at myself in the mirror for a long time - it's disgusting, wrinkles cut my face. I want to rejuvenate, she chirped.
How, where, how?
From a plastic surgeon friend, she answered briskly. - You need to raise your nose, fight with a network of wrinkles, as they say, pull your cheeks up to your ears, remove excess fat from your stomach - now it’s easy to do it ... Fat accumulations are pumped out with a syringe, - she began to bend the fingers of her right hand, revealing plans for cosmetic repairs appearance.
Sveta, what are you... You look great - ten years younger than your age. Do you want to go under the knife?
No, no, no, I've made up my mind. I saved some money, overcame timidity, gathered my courage.
Several years passed, and the case helped us to meet again. But that was already a different atmosphere of conversation. I saw her on the subway with a bandage on her nose. I found out and went up to her. She lowered her head in shame and suddenly burst into loud sobs.
The skin of the exposed part of the face was crimson red, as if hot water had been splashed on it. Tiredness was read in sunken eyes, bluish bags hung under the lower eyelids.
What's wrong with you, Svetlana? Did you have an accident, were you beaten?
I fell into the hands of a charlatan surgeon, who probably bought a diploma from the subway. He corrects his mistakes on me for the fourth time. And it's getting worse and worse. At least hang up. My husband left, the children laughed at me, the neighbors thought I was crazy. But I wanted the best for myself,” she muttered. - The wound on the nose does not heal, the cartilage has become thicker, and the nose is even larger.
So who is this "esculapius"? Take him to court, I advised her.
A lot of people will complain.
After exchanging phone numbers, we said goodbye.
Several months have passed since this meeting. Svetlana called me and told me that she more or less restored her appearance with the surgeon of another beauty salon. And yet I noticed - before her face was more beautiful. And she called herself a fool for taking this adventure.
And what about the former "specialist", figured it out? I asked.
He was suspended from work, he turned out to be a really professional, only. with a veterinary background. Through his connections, this butcher, horse doctor, got a job in the salon. True, he found another diploma - a psychotherapist. I sued him. Law enforcement agencies are now involved in the investigation of my case ...
Such a story happened to my classmate through the fault of an amateur - a specialist who “did not rise to the level of his incompetence in the hierarchical system of the profession”, but was an elementary businessman, an amateur non-specialist, or, more precisely, a charlatan.
Anatoly Tereshchenko
Ruins of incompetence
A common mistake of amateurs is to start with the difficult and strive for the impossible.
Incompetence is sometimes worse than espionage because of dire consequences.
V. Pirogov
I remember an old case ... Once in the late 1990s. at one of the meetings of the Union of Writers of Russia, when discussing bibliographic publications, in particular “On the Threshold of the 21st Century”, they talked about the dominance of mediocrity in one particular team, the leadership of which consisted of mediocrity, appointed on the basis of personal devotion, while nearby they worked highly intelligent workers - professionals, on whose shoulders lay the entire burden of the institute's problems.
- How can a director tolerate this?- asked the author.
But he himself is also one of those appointed not according to his mind, and therefore the effectiveness is low. You know, sometimes I think that incompetence is worse than espionage. She leaves behind ruins in the economy, politics and military affairs, - my friend and colleague Valery Pirogov voiced an interesting idea. - The regrets and dissatisfaction of people who are competent, knowledgeable, able to do better than those who are unworthy and dangerous at the helm of an assigned task, and often throw a working ship on the reefs, cause grins ...
And I thought, maybe here is the answer to the burning question of today: why does a person work like a damned one, but live, to put it mildly, a bit tight, simply - survive? And there are many of them in Russia, even very many.
This idea sunk deep into the author's soul and stuck there like a splinter for several years. And now the time has come when he decided to try to find arguments to confirm the truth in historical research using examples of modern life.
Speaking about the concept of incompetence, one should deal with its antonym - competence. What does she represent? This is, first of all, the availability of knowledge and experience necessary to carry out effective activities in a given subject area - military service or civilian work.
The word "competence" comes from the Latin competens and means "suitable, appropriate, proper". Here you can add such definitions as “capable, knowledgeable, understanding, knowledgeable”, etc. That is, the quality of a person who has comprehensive knowledge in a certain area of \u200b\u200bwork activity and is capable of carrying out real life actions for the benefit of himself, the team and society in in general. In addition, this is the ability of a person, his potential readiness to solve the tasks assigned to him with knowledge of the specific case entrusted to him. With a certain competence, a person is able to make objective judgments and make informed decisions.
From these messages, we have the right to say that incompetence is the opposite of competence in all the subtleties of this concept. It is closely related to such a term as professionalism - the ability to assess the measure of one's incompetence.
Incompetence does not mean that a person is stupid, illiterate or unable to cope with the tasks assigned to him. In another area of work, perhaps, he could have dealt with problems more difficult, but at a particular place, due to various factors: lack of knowledge about the necessary needs, lack of relevant experience, incomplete knowledge to solve the tasks, overestimated self-esteem, painful ambitions and others - he not only becomes an obstacle to achieving the goal, but also damages the cause. The incompetence of a particular specialist is a complex moral and psychological state of one who does not realize that he is not in the right place.
Once Benedict Spinoza, speaking of incompetent workers, noted that when they try to understand the difficulty, they confuse and spoil the matter even more.
There are many cases in life when someone who does not understand something can easily take up an active solution to the problem. Any ruler should beware of keeping such types in his immediate environment. The appointment of such people on the basis of the principle of personal devotion is dangerous for the sovereign by the catastrophe of the entrusted work, and sometimes even by personal defeat.
Such "specialists", especially selected on the basis of personal loyalty, can let their patron down. Such candidates for high positions do not like to talk businesslike, but they certainly want to decide something in their favor. However, "raw" decisions are dangerous due to their unpredictability and the most difficult consequences for the boss and the common cause, and for the team or the country as a whole.
So, professionals build the Titanic, amateurs build Noah's Ark.
The author concretized this very incompetence of some types as a result, as a chain of personnel errors, "kindred elevator" and "telephone law" of those in power in individual characters. He did this through the concept of "phenomenon" - a rare fact, an unusual event, an event that is difficult to comprehend in sensual contemplation.
Anyone who wants to feed the nightingale for his songs must understand the difference between the trills of a bird and slyness in the mouth of the watching authorities and who knows how to plaster well verbally.
This book is dedicated to bungling in the toga of INCOMPETENCE, which is dangerous for any state, especially during periods of military and economic exacerbations and crises.
Peter Principles
One of the branches of the principle of incompetence can serve as such an option. In the mid 1960s. many of my contemporaries enthusiastically transcribed, reprinted and copied the work of the Anglo-American scholar Lawrence Johnston Peter (1919–1990), the then fashionable work, The Peter Principle. In it, he argued that "... in a hierarchical system, each individual tends to rise to the level of his incompetence."
And if it is simpler, then, according to the Peter principle, a person working in any hierarchical association is promoted, i.e., grows until he takes a place where he is unable to cope with his duties. This will be a "plug" for the movement of the team, solving some problem, and a growth slowdown factor for others. "Stuck" will be in this place until it leaves the system into which it accidentally "embedded". As the second option - the system itself can throw it away.
It makes sense to turn to some of his figurative comparisons:
"Cream rises to the top until it's sour."
Ruins of incompetence Anatoly Tereshchenko
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The destructive effect of incompetence is well known. It gives rise to failures in any mechanism of official activity, and when resigned to it, chaos and ruins of those areas where this disease exists. Its favorable basis is: "telephone law", nepotism, "kindred elevators", personal devotion and the ability to remain silent where it is necessary to speak truthfully about shortcomings.
Incompetence, in the end, serves as a basis for dismissing an employee or transferring him to another job, because he undermines the hierarchy that seeks to preserve itself. The incompetent are, as a rule, uncreative individuals, ballast, sticky people who do not meet professional qualities or cope with work below the established level. Their bosses have to be fired within a particular organization due to a dishonest attitude to work and inconsistency with the position held.
The main danger of incompetence is the collapse of a specific area of work and its transformation into ruins without a timely response from personnel.
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The destructive effect of incompetence is well known. It gives rise to failures in any mechanism of official activity, and when resigned to it, chaos and ruins of those areas where this disease exists. Its favorable basis is: "telephone law", nepotism, "kindred elevators", personal devotion and the ability to remain silent where it is necessary to speak truthfully about shortcomings.
Incompetence, in the end, serves as a basis for dismissing an employee or transferring him to another job, because he undermines the hierarchy that seeks to preserve itself. The incompetent are, as a rule, uncreative individuals, ballast, sticky people who do not meet professional qualities or cope with work below the established level. Their bosses have to be fired within a particular organization due to a dishonest attitude to work and inconsistency with the position held.
The main danger of incompetence is the collapse of a specific area of work and its transformation into ruins without a timely response from personnel.
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The destructive effect of incompetence is well known. It gives rise to failures in any mechanism of official activity, and when resigned to it, chaos and ruins of those areas where this disease exists. Its favorable basis is: "telephone law", nepotism, "kindred elevators", personal devotion and the ability to remain silent where it is necessary to speak truthfully about shortcomings.
Incompetence, in the end, serves as a basis for dismissing an employee or transferring him to another job, because he undermines the hierarchy that seeks to preserve itself. The incompetent are, as a rule, uncreative individuals, ballast, sticky people who do not correspond to professional qualities or cope with work below the established level. Their bosses have to be fired within a particular organization due to a dishonest attitude to work and inconsistency with the position held.
The main danger of incompetence is the collapse of a specific area of work and its transformation into ruins without a timely personnel response.
