Delegation & Supervision

“Your success in your business is going to be largely determined by your taking the time to get to know the people who work for you. You need to ask them questions about their lives and listen to the answers.”

An important part of delegation is for you to think through the results that you are trying to accomplish,

Many people work hard all day long, but they produce very little because they are not focused on productivity, performance, and results.

YOUR MOST valuable tool for success is your ability to think with greater clarity than other people. The more mental tools that you have at your disposal to aid your thinking, the better decisions you can make, and the better results you can get.

Peter Drucker said, “I am not a consultant; I am an insultant. I don’t tell people what to do. I just ask them the hard questions that they need to answer to decide what to do for themselves.”

Many of the problems in management come from taking action without thinking.

Practice the “70 percent rule.” If someone else can do the task 70 percent as well as you, delegate the task to that person. Free yourself up to do those few tasks that only you can do.

You should delegate whatever you have mastered and can now do easily, and move on to something else.

This myth will hold you back and condemn you to continually perform at an operational level, rather than advance in management.