<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/mental-competency-still-murky-concept.html" dsn="news"><title>Mental Competency still a murky concept</title><item_date>10/14/2015 12:00:00 PM</item_date><author>Erik Sherman</author><image><img src="/news/images/fortune-mental-competency.png" alt="Mental Competency still a murky concept"/></image><image_caption>Sumner Redstone, Photograph by Michael Tran-FilmMagic/Getty Images.</image_caption><thumbnail><img src="/news/images/fortune-mental-competency.png" alt="Mental Competency still a murky concept"/></thumbnail><summary>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.</summary><category>In the News</category><featured/><tags><tag>In the News</tag></tags></item>