Quotes About Delegation

Rockefeller never offered blame or praise and revealed his opinion of employees only by adding or subtracting to their duties.

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

By this same post, I am delegating a close friend of mine, Irving Wiesel, to visit your place of business and ferret out the truth. You can lay your cards on the table with Wiesel or not, as you see fit. When he finishes with you, you will have neither cards nor table.

It was good to have subordinates who didn't need their t's crossed and the i's dotted . p.173

Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.

When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.

People who delegate their own responsibility to higher powers are willfully ignoring what the facts tell them. They don't care about the truth. They want to be left in peace. Goodness they attribute to God, evil to the devil or their children's innate wickedness.

tired of orchestrating the whole damn world so it would work the way it should. She wanted to see if someone else could do it.

Consolidating power and merely delegating responsibilities are sufficient ways to maintain a single community, but they are terrible ways to exponentially reproduce Christian community. Movements occur only when the disempowered are given the freedom and responsibility to lead, along with the accountability to make it happen.

You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

To be in charge is certainly not only to carry out the proper measures yourself but to see that every one else does so too; to see that no one either willfully or ignorantly thwarts or prevents such measures. It is neither to do everything yourself nor to appoint a number of people to each duty, but to ensure that each does that duty to which he is appointed.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained...be exceedingly careful about the powers you delegate to any government.

Sometimes you just have to be willing to delegate and not feel like you're the only one with the answer.

Leaders receive and give assignments. This is an important part of the necessary principle of delegating. No one appreciates a willing volunteer more than I, but the total work cannot be done as the Lord wants it done merely by those doing the work who may be present at meetings.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all credit for doing it.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

Let the computer do the repetitious, the mundane—it will do a better job of it than we would. We've got more important and more difficult things to do.

Responsibility is something you actively agree to. You make a commitment to ensure that something is done right, but you don't necessarily have direct control over every aspect of it.

I learned this early on in the variety store business: you've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

Great managers perform leveraging work—work that allows other people to succeed—rather than perform the actual work itself.