This means agreement on a course of action, if the most disingenuous kind. “Do people talk about peripheral competency? Being competent is not the standard we’re seeking. “This bothers me because it is just a silly phrase when you think about it,” says Bruce Barry, professor of management at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Business.
This awful expression refers to a firm’s or a person’s fundamental strength-even though that’s not what the word “competent” means.
