Incompetence, success & moving on

With all the incompetence that we encounter everyday, I reckon it would be highly probable that even the marginally competent would be successful in whatever they are doing. Successful in the sense that they would stand out from the sea of incompetence.

Then again, this doesn't mean that they would necessarily get rewarded, promoted or even recognised for their competence. More likely than not, such competence would be "rewarded" with more work and more responsibilities...

Moving on... I had a thought about this yesterday.

I reckon this is a pretty good rule of thumb to decide whether we stay or move on from whatever organisation we're involved in: When we're no longer learning anything new from the organisation, and when we're also not making any meaningful contribution to it, then it's time to move on.

However, that is not to say we should shirk our responsibility of trying our best. That is, when at first we fail, we should try again - but with a different strategy. Only when we've exhausted all possibilities, and we know we've done our best, we should be moving on...