delegation
Do everything by hand until it’s too painful, then automate it.
Reid Hoffman • The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
The best thing I did as a manager at PayPal was to make every person in the company responsible for doing just one thing
Peter Thiel • Zero to One
The responsibilities that you delegate to other people have to be tasks that you have outgrown.
Gino Wickman • Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
Many give lip service, but few delegate authority in important matters. And that means all they delegate is dog-work. A real leader does as much dog-work for his people as he can: he can do it, or see a way to do without it, ten times as fast. And he delegates as many important matters as he can because that creates a climate in which people grow.
... See moreRobert C. Townsend • Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
Because successful delegation involves an appropriate level of knowledge and trust, one should start with easy, noncritical tasks and work toward delegating more complex, higher-level tasks.
Edward Hess • Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses
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
In closing, delegation isn’t simply handing off tasks and projects and assuming you will get superior results.
It requires you, the leader to think about what you are delegating, if the person you are delegating to has the skills or can be taught the skills quickly. You have to consider is this a one time task that you can do in an hour but would ta... See more
It requires you, the leader to think about what you are delegating, if the person you are delegating to has the skills or can be taught the skills quickly. You have to consider is this a one time task that you can do in an hour but would ta... See more
Linda Finkle • When Delegating Too Much Becomes a Problem
Not only did he delegate the project itself, he delegates all the responsibility for the communication, problem solving and changes that might need to be made.
When Delegating Too Much Becomes a Problem
Here is what I have observed when working with clients:
- They delegate everything or delegate way too much
- They delegate to the wrong people
- They delegate the wrong activities, tasks or things