Quotes About Delegation

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

Never send a Man in to do a Donkey's job

An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.

Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.

Delegators love to pull people into meetings, too. In fact, meetings are a delegator's best friend. That's where he gets to seem important. Meanwhile, everyone else who attends is pulled away from getting real work done.

Just like work expands to fill the time available, work expands to fill the team available.

The most natural action of a senior official is to breed junior officials.

the larger the staff, the more important it becomes to make sure responsibility is owned by individuals and not by the group.

True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.

There's no point delegating a decision if you won't accept the outcome.

Effective delegation depends on the ability of others to make decisions. Some people can make decisions, others cannot. It

Nobody had ever explained to me that working with, and through, others is by far the most effective way to do things - assuming, of course, that they understand what you want and are keen to follow. I gradually began to understand that this is the difference between management and leadership.

Effective delegation depends on the ability of others to make decisions. Some people can make decisions, others cannot. It just doesn't work if you are congenitally hesitant and allow things to linger in a state of suspension.

The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended

The kids are really great at baking cupcakes, cookies, of course - that kind of stuff - but I love delegating responsibilities for dinner so you have them picking herbs, or I have plastic knives for them so they're learning sort of how to chop. It's pretty great.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

You do not need 435 people playing commander-in-chief.

If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.

The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.