Quotes About Delegation

My dear friend, the entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don't you know anything about basic economics? - Breeze

They all want to be involved, but nobody wants to be responsible

Being in charge isn't about doing anything—it's about making certain that other people do what they're supposed to! Delegation, my friend. Without it, we would have to bake our own bread and dig our own latrines!

That's the way of most rulership," Ham mused. "What is a government but an institutionalized method of making sure somebody else does all the work?

We asked a thousand leaders to list marble-earning behaviors—what do your team members do that earns your trust? The most common answer: asking for help. When it comes to people who do not habitually ask for help, the leaders we polled explained that they would not delegate important work to them because the leaders did not trust that they would raise their hands and ask for help. Mind. Blown.

We asked a thousand leaders to list marble-earning behaviors—what do your team members do that earns your trust? The most common answer: asking for help. When it comes to people who do not habitually ask for help, the leaders we polled explained that they would not delegate important work to them because the leaders did not trust that they would raise their hands and ask for help.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

I don't play computer games. What I do is yell at my secretary and say, 'Go on the Internet, and find this or that.'

For me, being able to engage with the details when necessary, when there's a challenge, when there's a particularly important pivot, yes, you have to do that. But in general, a leader needs to trust their commanders, needs to trust the team they've assembled, to actually execute in the right way.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.

Officers are not fruit. I can't pick them off a tree.

Having worked out what matters most now, pass the message on to others and give them responsibility for carrying out their part in the plan. Keep it simple. Don't tell people what to do and how to do it. Instead, be as clear as you can about your intentions. Say what you want people to achieve and, above all, tell them why. Then ask them to tell you what they are going to do as a result.

Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you.

You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.

the Taliban's leaders had no idea where this turn in American attitudes had come from. They made little effort to find out. When pressed on the issue of education for girls by the occasional visiting American delegation, they said, "This is God's law," recalled the State Department's Leonard Scensny. "This is the way it's supposed to be. Leave us alone.

I believe you have inside you a core genius… some one thing that you love to do, and do so well, that you hardly feel like doing anything else. It's effortless for you and a whole lot of fun. And if you could make money doing it, you'd make it your lifetime's work. Successful people believe this, too. That's why they put their core genius first. They focus on it—and delegate everything else to other people on their team.

the leader should reserve to himself the hiring, compensating, motivating, molding, assessing and firing of his chief lieutenants.

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

delegation of hobs came out of the deep woods and, in a ceremony that dated back to the founding of the House, presented her with five blue jay feathers and a single perfect acorn. She repaid them with silver, bolts of jacquard silk, and as many of the best and largest flat screen television sets commercially available as they could carry back to their burrows in a day.

Tu capacidad de delegar y después asegurarte de que el empleado cumple es el factor determinante de tu éxito como gerente. Con la delegación, tu potencial es ilimitado. Sin la habilidad de delegar, tendrás que hacerlo todo tú.

Practica la «regla del setenta por ciento». Si alguien más puede hacer el trabajo un setenta por ciento tan bien como tú, delega la tarea a esa persona.