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How to delegate

1. Viewpoint

David Freemantle in Superboss.

"Delegation is the discovery that your people are 100 per cent more capable than you ever realised."

2. Quotable quote

R. Kemp & M. Nathan in Middle Management in Schools, Blackwell Education, Oxford, 1989, p. 165.

"One definition of management is that it is ‘achieving objectives through others’. You cannot hope to achieve all your objectives on your own - indeed you should not even try. Your job is to manage the operation in such a way that its objectives are achieved. If you cannot do it all yourself, you have to delegate. Successful delegation is the key to successful management."

3. Smile & ponder

Unfortunately, he doesn’t delegate - but he does the work of two men: Laurel and Hardy! …