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Spend The Majority Of Your Time Doing What Only You Can Do And Delegate The Rest
| Spend the majority of your time doing what only you can do. Delegate the other rest. Since most Managers have difficulty delegating, implementing this rule may be challenging. However, the payback is enormous.
First my staff gets to complete work that I can do but which they must learn. Next, I free myself to work on those things only I can do. Finally, I can gradually add more complexity to what I delegate to my staff. Their growth continues and I become a more effective manager.
I observed a Partner in a CPA firm who rather than spend time teaching his staff, preferred to do the simpler work himself because it "saved time". He found himself constantly falling behind because the complex work that only he could do remained in piles on his desk. If this brilliant technician had taken the time to simply teach his staff, he would have been freed up forever. This is the perfect application of the old proverb "Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime."
Any manager will fall behind schedule when they fail to delegate those things their staff should be doing. Being expedient (I'll just get this done myself) is usually not effective in the long run. Spend 80% of your time doing what only you can do. Delegate the rest. |
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