Mental Competency still a murky concept

By Erik Sherman
Oct 14, 2015

Sumner Redstone, Photograph by Michael Tran-FilmMagic/Getty Images.

William James College's Dr. Jason Osher was featured in an article in Fortune Magazine. He discussed the difficulty in defining competency and how Mental Competency tests in the C-suite are common. The article focuses on Sumner Redstone, the 92 year-old executive chairman of Viacom. Osher highlights the lack of uniform definitions for competency and how a person, such as Redstone, may be deemed competent in one task but not in another.

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