"The voters see it as leadership competence, and then that can translate into many different things, " Dowd said.
Humility goes a long way and if you combine it with competence, it goes even further.
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Competence to have the know-how and experience to correctly identify problems, devise solutions and execute them.
Ultimately, that bond is built on trust--in the entrepreneur's competence, character and empathy for his customers.
But this often meant choosing people for their ideological purity rather than their competence or intelligence.
Competence: to ensure the reporting is done by a qualified person based on experience and knowledge.
My conclusion: Republicans were hurt when voters doubted their competence, Democrats when voters opposed their ideology.
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Every year, another Republican quality was tainted: managerial competence, fiscal discipline and personal ethics.
The strikes were strikes at the truthfulness and competence, nay, even virility of the other.
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We game for variety and to develop competence in a vast array of skills.
Is the choice among such alternatives really beyond the cognitive competence of the average home buyer?
After watching each video, participants evaluated the interviewee on general competence, trustworthiness and likability.
It articulates a vision that will appeal to the competence and ingenuity of many Africans.
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The best is where you have competence, strength, and passion, but still a lot to learn.
It is necessary, but it is not adequate to predict executive competence and corporate success.
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Discretion, competence and a talent for hand-holding are prized of underwriter and undertaker alike.
On the attack, language is used to scapegoat, challenge the competence, or even vilify the opposition.
We are a melting pot, a mosaic of immigrants where competence is recognized and rewarded.
It also adopts international standard-setting instruments in the fields of competence of the Organization.
Quite apart from the nationality of the source, there is the basic question of competence.
Improving Afghan technical competence, and ensuring a transparent process, should help to secure that.
Such hits can also sap investor confidence less directly, by raising awkward questions about managers' competence.
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"Hatoyama has brought into question the competence of the entire party, " one TV commentator said.
Its resilience during the crisis partly reflected its competence, but also its insularity and underdevelopment.
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''After eight years of charisma and four years of the clubhouse, why not try competence?
And competence is not just about party pledges and the like but about people.
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Conversely, character without competence means you could be trusting your mother to fly a 747.
Women with the same impact and productivity as men were consistently given much lower competence scores.
To be sure, the perception of competence isn't the same as measurable leadership success.
Its administrative competence and loyalty to the Lithuanian state is, they feel, often questionable.
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