“The study resulted in a model of competence, not merely a laundry list of characteristics.”
Richard Boyatzis (1946) American business theorist
Source: Competent manager (1982), p. 43.
“We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.”
— Umberto Eco, book Foucault's Pendulum
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
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