Quotes About Delegation

more leaders equals more bureaucracy. Leaders don't just lead—they create work for other people, in the form of meetings, sign-offs, projects, procedures, priorities, and so on, especially if they're good leaders. Others in the organization then spend more of their time responding to these leaders and less time leading or managing their own team members. Each leader has their own staff—adding yet more cost and complexity to the organization.

Delegation and trust are of course vital—you can't do everything yourself, and you shouldn't try. That said, you don't want delegation to verge into a total abdication of authority on your part. You must verify that employees and the organization are actually executing as they are supposed to.

Somebody will look after things. It's none of your business. Forget about it. Let other people do the worrying.

The king never does an upleasent thing. Lord Cromwell does it for him.

No matter how savvy you are with your Day Planner and Google Calendar, if you really want to do it all, chances are you'll need some help.

For men, incompetence was a gambit: I'm terrible at this; you do it .

I am going to be announcing today that we will have a business delegation come to this country sometime in the future where we will bring businesses from America to Morocco to show them the vast business opportunities here.

The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

You can't be the accountant in your accounting firm. You can't cut the grass in your landscaping business. You can't work on the vehicles in your auto repair shop... And you really can't spend all of your time managing those actions, either.

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

Let others do your work for you. Use quotes, anecdotes, information from other authorities; let them carry your message across. —Vladimir Nabokov

One of the advantages of real worth is that menial tasks can always be left to someone else.

Too frightened to set a precedent, but quite happy to pass the buck.

He then farmed the problem out to Joe Laitin, a former wire service reporter who had later become a public affairs officer for President Kennedy and currently worked for President Johnson.

That's Harris all over—so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.

In a boat, I have always noticed that it is the fixed idea of each member of the crew that he is doing everything. 

So ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

You are not going to do most of the work. You shouldn't be doing most of the work... and the way you get out of doing most of the work, is you delegate.

The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.

The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.

I automate some tasks and delegate many others. Doing research, job organization, data processing, field surveys, and plan preparation can be tedious, detailed work.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.