Delegation: Working On Your Business, Not In It
"I would never have achieved what I did without learning the art of delegation," Virgin founder and CEO Richard Branson said. Branson credits delegating tasks as key to his success. The first task he delegated was accounting.?
Assigning tasks is essential for business expansion. Without it, your business is constrained by the time you can personally invest. Eventually, growth will come to a halt.?
Besides, many tasks you can delegate are things you probably don’t want to do anyway, and you'll find paying yourself to be your own admin isn’t a worthwhile investment.?
Great Leaders Delegate Tasks?
"To be a great leader, you have to learn to delegate well," the Harvard Business Review (HBR) said. "One of the most difficult transitions for leaders to make is the shift from doing to leading." Doing everything yourself will limit your business's growth to the amount of time you can give to it, which is finite.?
"In the short term, you may have the stamina to get up earlier, stay later, and out-work the demands you face," HBR said. "But the inverse equation of shrinking resources and increasing demands will eventually catch up to you, and at that point, how you involve others sets the ceiling of your leadership impact."?
"While it may seem difficult, elevating your impact requires you to embrace an unavoidable leadership paradox: You need to be more essential and less involved," HBR said. When you justify your hold on work, you're confusing being involved with being essential."?
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1 周This is very insightful. I know this fact. At times it is a bit hard when I try to control everything and it's a skill I have to work on by myself.