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I have learned to delegate.
You can't delegate turning a company around.
I know what I want, and it's hard to delegate.
My life is such that I can delegate with love.
I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.
I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.
I either delegate something, I dump it, or I deal with it.
I'm not going to suggest to a delegate at what they ought to do.
You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.
In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.
Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.
Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can't do by yourself.
The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.
Companies can't delegate social media to the new college grad and think they have it covered.
I always delegate. If someone is very good at something, whatever it is, he will be in charge.
I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.
When you're at the top you have to know how to delegate without putting the fear of God into people.
Sometimes you just have to be willing to delegate and not feel like you're the only one with the answer.
To scale your business, you need to delegate responsibilities to others and establish a strong company culture.
When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.
I read so much data. There's so much information that comes my way. And there's got to be a way for me to delegate more.
I think part of being a good leader is listening skills, and I think a big part of leadership is the ability to delegate.
I've organized everything for my family since I was little. I know how to delegate and budget. I solve people's problems.
A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
You have to know the weeds - to have lived in them - to delegate. I wouldn't want to be a leader who had never lived in the weeds.
I think you have to teach kids to work, and you can only teach them to work if you work... I can't delegate jobs if I'm not doing it.
One of the things that I want to make sure everybody understands is that when you delegate the authority, you have to set the standard.
One of the great advantages that I had in my career is I started trading 24 hours a day in my early 20s, and I had to learn to delegate to people.
All around us, algorithms provide a kind of convenient source of authority: an easy way to delegate responsibility, a short cut we take without thinking.
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.
I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.
I think one of my strengths is that I can always take advice, and I can delegate. I know a lot of people feel the need to do everything themselves, but I am not one of them.
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.
The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.
The kind of work you do, when you do it, how much of it there is, and who you delegate it to are often the cause of the quasi-schizophrenic behavior seen in many business owners and entrepreneurs.
When you're at the lower levels in the organization, you need to win and be right. But as you move up, you need to let other people win and be right, and become a manager and delegate responsibility.
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.
Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.
Delegate to others who have strengths where you don't. But sometimes, you just need to be the one to drive the change when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step. To me, that's courage in action.
It's extremely instructive to realize that you cannot do everything. You need to delegate, to find experts, to consult with them. A big part of the job of directing is knowing when to take something on and when you shouldn't.
A lot of coaches could ration out their time. They could delegate. They would make time for their family. But when I was coaching I would almost laugh at those guys. I knew we were working the extra hours to get an edge on them.
I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.
I know a few CEOs who delegate the understanding of their financials and their business metrics to the CFO, and then stop worrying about all that 'numbers stuff.' Don't do that. You have to know your numbers inside and out - they are your life blood.
From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.
For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.
When we first started, I had the time to personally live every project. As I continue to build the company, I've learned much better ways to delegate and let the executive team run. It's just as exciting for me to see the executives succeed as it is the artists.