Quotes About Delegation

Work groups and organization come into being because there is a task to be done that is too big for one person

So, what qualities must you have to be a good delegator? There are five main tips: 1 Choose the right staff. 2 Train them. 3 Take care in briefing them, and ensuring their understanding of the `why' and `how to' oftasks delegated to them (and in imparting to them an understanding ofbusiness aims and policies). 4 Try not to interfere - stand back and support. 5 Control in a sensible and sensitive manner by checking progress at agreed intervals.

When we oppose God's delegated authority, we oppose God Himself.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Nobody does anything if he can get anybody else to do it

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten."

The problem is not so much with an academic education as much with the intention of the person sitting at the authoritative position and doing the selection, job delegation and performance evaluation of well-educated employees especially engineers in the private organization.

HLADE'S LAW: If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man — he will find an easier way to do it.

I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.

I have to let the general manager do what makes the most sense, or I can't hold him accountable.

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good.

My idea is bring in good people and then get out of their way.

One of the things that good leaders do is choose good people to work for them.

I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

When Theresa May asked me to resolve policy disagreements between ministers, my power to do that depended on the fact that I was acting on her behalf with her delegated authority.

I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

We made the "doing" easier, which is precisely why we need to outsource that part of our job and focus all our energy onto the hard work of making change happen.

If we can measure it, we can do it faster. If we can put it in a manual, we can outsource it. If we can outsource it, we can get it cheaper.

I live a very balanced life. I am very good at delegating responsibilities.

Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.