A Quote by Seth Godin

Competence is no longer a scarce commodity. — © Seth Godin
Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.
Competence is no longer scarce.
The joy is not in experiencing a scarce commodity but in possessing it.
Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.
Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today.
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.
Today, financial capital is no longer the key asset. It is human capital. Success is no longer about economic competence as the main leverage. It is about emotional intelligence. It is no longer about controls. It is about collaboration. It is no longer about hierarchies. It is about leading through networks. It is no longer about aligning people through structures and spreadsheets. It is about aligning them through meaning and purpose. It is no longer about developing followers. It is about developing leaders.
Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.
If commodity prices are no longer going up then food prices in the grocery store will no longer go up, at some point.
If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
A record is a commodity, but so is a hamburger. Just because I work at McDonald's doesn't mean I reap the benefits of that commodity. That's the reality with most artists in the record industry: They're getting paid a subsistence wage so they can keep producing a commodity for the record label.
Many other countries in the region also have money and oil, but they haven't done much good with it - at least not enough to stop the Middle East's disastrous wars. Saudi Arabia at least has something else: stability, a scarce commodity in the region.
Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.
A 'competence' that has no defined borders cannot be called a true competence.
The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.
Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it's not championship. It's the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.
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