Quotes About Delegation

That was the definition of management—getting others to do your work for you. And we were the others.

A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.

A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.

he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

The list of frequently used nouns included: struggle for peace, woman, love, constitution, deputy, congress, delegation, friend, mother, little girl, salmon, sturgeon, red (black) caviar, champagne, vodka, watermelon, cherry, sour cherry, horseradish, and beefsteak. "Fini!" exclaimed Piri happily: she was done gluing the mirror.

We don't break setups, or light a fire. We just point out to the foreman of that work center which job we would prefer he gets to next.

The German delegation, led by a clutch of Social Democratic politicians, arrived in Paris in early May. They expected to be treated, especially by Wilson, as a fellow democratic nation, there to negotiate a final equitable peace. Instead, to their shock and humiliation, they were received as a beaten adversary to be punished and reduced to impotence, while Wilson sat mutely by, doing nothing.

Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.

The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.

True entrepreneurs work on their business not in their business.

People looked to rating agencies to do the work for them.

I truly feel like my job is to make the shows. That's what I'm paid to do. It's somebody else's job to market them, and it's somebody else's job to pay attention to the ratings, because if I paid attention to all that, my head would explode.

It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.

The jobs of manager and director of football are too big for one individual - this I realised very quickly.

When you have a governor of your party, that governor has the capacity to be able to build a party, lead a party, more so than any Senator or anyone in the Congressional delegation.

Apollo succeeded at critical moments like this because the bosses had no hesitation about assigning crucial tasks to one individual, trusting his judgment, and then getting out of his way.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.

Rutherford held that the people were the "fountain-power" of political authority, and that they were the ones who delegated this authority to the magistrates. He also demonstrated that when such authority was abused, the people had the authority to rescind that delegation.

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

The One Minute Manager

But what's the good of being boss if you don't trust your workers? You may think differently. But I'm not asking you.

But did this matter? No king could do everything himself: kingship was a matter of delegation, but with the king making the major decisions. Effective delegation, however, required, first, choosing competent ministers and, second, a willingness to follow their advice and to back them up when necessary.