However, recent research has shown fears about appearing incompetent by asking advice are totally misplaced.
So when something isn't going according to plan — like a big sale that's clearly going downhill or a client situation that's about to explode — they may not be completely upfront about the situation with you, for fear of coming across as incompetent.
The set phrase" having neither knowledge nor skill" is later used to refer to being ignorant and incompetent.
After being mechanical, he became incompetent; then he saw younger clerks who had more zest in their work, promoted over him.
Solverson is stuck underneath an incompetent police chief who willfully denies her genius.
Francis Jeffrey (1773 - 1850) Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ), in Observer April 4, 1989 There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you.
Gardner (1912 - 2002) Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Peter (1919 - 1988), The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1 Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
