When Delegating Too Much Becomes a Problem
Most entrepreneurs confuse Deciding with Delegating. If you assign a task to someone else but need to answer questions to get the task done, you are not Delegating—you are Deciding.
Mike Michalowicz • Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself
edit. Eventually, I asked Prasad to review it and send it without my input. On the one hand, no big deal: It’s just a memo. On the other hand, this is the only regular representation to our CEO of what the entire People Operations team is doing. In letting go, I gave up a little bit of control. But I got back valuable time to focus on other
... See moreLaszlo Bock • Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
that means it is probably transferable. Leadership demands that you move it down the organizational tree. If there is a known path of the work, and it is repetitive, it can probably be taught. And if someone else can be taught to do it, it might be time to delegate that work, so that you can get back to doing what only you can do: lead.
Henry Cloud • Boundaries for Leaders (Enhanced Edition): Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously In Charge
"We usually tend to overrate rather than underrate our importance and to conclude that far too many things can only be done by ourselves. Even very effective executives still do a great many unnecessary, unproductive things."