If an organization contains sub-competent people, it’s traditions and protocols need to ensure those people are quickly and reliably thrown out themselves.
Unskilled and sub-competent are not synonyms in this context; even a ditch-digger can be competent, it just means they dig quickly regularly and with a minimum of fuss. And not arbitrarily throwing out protocols for momentary convenience is a matter of both maintaining regularity and minimizing fuss, so I shouldn’t have to worry about the ditch-digging committee making a mess of things so long as they all have their heads screwed on straight.
If an organization contains sub-competent people, it’s traditions and protocols need to ensure those people are quickly and reliably thrown out themselves.
Therefore, a reliable method for evaluating competency needs to be part of the traditions and protocols. Otherwise it’s just a question of time...
Not necessarily, sub-competent people can still be useful, e.g., unskilled labor is a thing.
Unskilled and sub-competent are not synonyms in this context; even a ditch-digger can be competent, it just means they dig quickly regularly and with a minimum of fuss. And not arbitrarily throwing out protocols for momentary convenience is a matter of both maintaining regularity and minimizing fuss, so I shouldn’t have to worry about the ditch-digging committee making a mess of things so long as they all have their heads screwed on straight.