Quotes About Delegation

Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can't do by yourself.

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Shifting responsibility to the sales manager.

I have never laid a brick in my life. But my people have laid more bricks than anybody else put together. Because I know how to pay.

Crawford began to underline. "If you assume when I send you on a job, Starling, you can make an ass out of u and me both.

Why bother hiring a hotshot if the bulk of their time is spent doing administrative work?

As I argued, when you delegate productivity decisions to the individual, it's not surprising that you end up stuck with a simple, flexible, lowest common denominator–style workflow like the hyperactive hive mind.

To ask a CEO to spend four hours thinking deeply about a single problem is a waste of what makes him or her valuable. It's better to hire three smart subordinates to think deeply about the problem and then bring their solutions to the executive for a final decision.

We can outsource the work but not the responsibility.

Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

I was asked rather suddenly to join a delegation going to China, early October (alas John couldn't come because of Oxford term). (Another member was David Attenborough, the very nice animal TV man.)

El feminismo no me alcanzó para repartir las tareas domésticas, en verdad esa idea no me pasó por la cabeza, creía que la liberación consistía en salir al mundo y echarme encima los deberes masculinos, pero no pensé que también se trataba de delegar parte de mi carga. El

El femenismo no me alcanzó para repartir las tareas doméstics, en verdade esa idea no me pasó por la cabeza, creía que la liberación consistía en salir al mundo y echarme encima los deberes masculinos, pero no pensé que también trataba de delegar parte de mi carga. El resultado fue mucho cansacio, como le pasó a milllones de mujeres de mi generación que hoy cuestionam los movimientos feministas.

If you want something done right, get someone else to do it.

No matter how lofty you are in your department, the responsibility for what your lowliest assistant is doing is yours.

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

I try to hire good people and let them do their job and don't question how they do things.

There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

The truth is that when writing a TV show or a film you are a part of a team. And though you might be the architect who makes the initial drawings, somewhere along the line it all has to be given up, handed over. To the costume department and the actors, the art department, the director and the producers.

As soon as the boss decides he wants his workers to do something, he has two problems: making them do it and monitoring what they do.

I learned to choose my battles. Sometimes I let my producer deal with something that I didn't want to deal with.

Ultimately, an aircraft owner does not want to have to deal with all the intricate details which are necessary for the business.

Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.