Webster defines competent as:
- proper or rightly pertinent
- having requisite or adequate ability or qualities : fit <a competent teacher> <a competent piece of work>
- legally qualified or adequate <a competent witness>
- having the capacity to function or develop in a particular way; specifically : having the capacity to respond (as by producing an antibody) to an antigenic determinant <immunologically competent cells>
Incompetent is defined as:
- not legally qualified
- inadequate to or unsuitable for a particular purpose
- a: lacking the qualities needed for effective action b: unable to perform a function properly <incompetent heart valves>
I define competence as being capable of doing the job and incompetence as being incapable of doing the job.
I define incompetence as a person who asks the questions:
“What are your key differentiators?”
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“Can you give me an LOE on that?”
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