Quotes About Delegation

I don't break my head while working on a film or a show. The director is capable enough to bring out the best in all. So, why should I bother with anything?

The more affiliates I have the more I can sit back and let my brown belt and black belts do the work.

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

There are a lot of things I suck at. I'm not organized. I have to have partners and people around me who dot my i's and cross my t's. I'm sloppy. I'm a ready-fire-aim guy. I need to have people around me who aren't.

How you meet your own commitments is important. Are you doing it by draining energy—driving people relentlessly, or burning them out by making impossible demands? Or are you expanding the capacity of the organization by helping people grow and expand their own capacities? In other words, there's a right and a wrong way to delegate.

Mr. Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law.

Just pass the work I assign along to somebody else and trust to luck. We call that delegation of responsibility.

This argument made logical and legal sense to almost everyone except the Virginians, who were accustomed to thinking of the Old Dominion as an empire of its own, with the Ohio Valley and the Kentucky as extensions of greater Virginia. Even James Madison, the most nonprovincial member of the Virginia delegation, felt obliged to defend his state's claim to Kentucky's border, though he opposed the threat of the Virginia legislature to revoke its previous cession.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

To Mayo, this meant "passing down the chain of command the handling of all details to the lowest link in the chain which could properly handle them," while keeping in hand matters of policy and strategic importance.

Yes, in the last war King had convinced Admiral Henry T. Mayo of the importance of delegating and then trusting his destroyer captains; he had preached the importance of individual training and career advancement so as to be fully capable of executing such instructions; but when push came to shove, King had always had a terrible time biting his own sharp tongue and trusting that his orders would be carried out.

smart people work, elegant people have smart people work for them. Gallin

will probably fall apart while they try to decide who's going to care of business in his absence.

I remembered Nero telling me once that smart people work, elegant people have smart people work for them.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake.

Republican theory clearly stated that the people held all political power, and only they could delegate authority to a government. The people were free to change governments at will. They didn't need permission from incumbents.

Leaders create leaders. They arm their subordinates with intent. And then step out of the way.

Los líderes crean líderes. Dotan de intención a sus subordinados. Y se quitan de en medio.

The Russian delegation, led by Maxim Litvinov, proposed complete and immediate disarmament for everybody; this was rejected out of hand as a Bolshevik trick.

It is *essential* to such a government, that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion, or a favored class of it; otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans, and claim for their government the honorable title of republic.

it was impossible to confine a Government to the exercise of express powers; there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication, unless the Constitution descended to recount every minutia

Marshall made it clear that the United States required joint proposals of needs from the European countries, as part of a European Recovery Plan (ERP). At first the Soviets seemed ready to take part, and Foreign Minister Molotov and aides appeared at a conference in Paris to make known their desires. At the last moment, however, Molotov received a telegram from home and marched his delegation out.

Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.

I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.