My questions and doubts about Wall Street are longer standing and go beyond the ethics of particular transactions, and are more related to competence than ethics.

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Finally, ponder this factor related to the competence of the potential candidates: If you were a nation's president or its environmental or health minister, would you send your best and brightest people to work for the UN?

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The results of their study, which are about to be published in Psychological Science, show that both the students' assessments of the leadership potential of the bosses and their ratings for the traits of competence, dominance and facial maturity were significantly related to a company's profits.

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