The Most Important Rules of Delegation
I found recently an article by Richard Lannon entitled 12 Rules of Delegation. While the article is fine and it really gives some insights on how to delegate I think it fails to emphasize the most critical issues of delegating responsibility to the others.
I started thinking and looking for some more blog posts on delegation and I came to some conclusions which I would like to share here with you.
Delegation is a two-way street, says Richard Lannon. Yes, this is an important thing that we shouldn’t forget. And when we assign a task to someone and we hold them responsible for it we have to have in mind our reasons to delegate and their reasons to accept it.
What are the issues from our perspective? There are two major questions we must ask ourselves: Why to delegate? and What to delegate?
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