Quotes About Delegation

What am I continuing to do myself that I'm not good at?" Improve it, eliminate it, or delegate it.

Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined.

If you are a micromanaging entrepreneur, realize that even if you can do something better than the rest of the world, it doesn't mean that's what you should be doing if it's part of the minutiae. Empower others to act without interrupting you.

The realization that the best way to get things done is to let go. Here's the thing. . . . It's often the case that people want to help you or work with you. But they can't if you insist on holding on to tight control. The more you let go, the more people will surprise you.

Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else's time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash.

It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them. The first month cost perhaps $200 more than if I had been micromanaging.

If you're running around like a chicken with its head cut off and assign your VA to do that for you, it doesn't improve the order of the universe.

Management is hard, and not because there is so much work to do (an overworked manager is almost certainly doing work he/she shouldn't be doing). Management is hard because the skills are inherently difficult to master. Your mastery of them will affect your organization more than anything going on under you.

When managers are overworked, they're doing something other than management; the more they allow themselves to be overworked, the less real management gets done.

Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a cameraman, an operator - but there's no way; you can't do that anymore.

En el Congreso de Tres Cruces, el 5 de abril de 1813, Artigas expresó ante la multitud reunida: "Mi autoridad emana de vosotros y ella cesa ante vuestra presencia soberana", es decir reconocía que el poder era del pueblo y que él era solo el delegado.

Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things.

In other words, speed, innovation, and global focus happen only when lots of delegated authority sits alongside lots of centralized authority.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what you need done and let them surprise you

remember to ask me to take charge of all minutiae, and they will be taken care of so well and so quickly that you cannot get bogged down in them.

Confidence spark When interviewing for an ambitious assignment, make a list of the skills you have, the skills you need to learn, and the tasks that can be delegated. Now address your fear of not being able to handle the situation, and see the truth as it is. You have several skills, and you can learn or delegate the rest. Breaking down the job into its various parts may also help. What daily tasks can you do right now? Which ones will you assign to someone else?

What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

What causes historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the collective will of the people transferred to one person. Under what condition is the will of the people delegated to one person? On condition that that person expresses the will of the whole people. That is, power is power: in other words, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

I learned a valuable lesson doing 'Mr. Sunshine,' which is that I didn't want to be in charge because it's too much. Being in charge and acting in every scene was just too difficult. It's like eating dinner in a moving golf cart every night.

Work divided is in that manner shortened.

The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

I find it hard to manage somebody's work unless I have an intimate knowledge of how to do it myself.