3 DELEGATING WORK FOR MAXIMUM IMPACT

The focus of this chapter is growing capability by delegating meaningful tasks and learning to let go.

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

Hands up all of you who don’t have enough to do. We guess that not many hands went up. In fact, most of you probably have far too much to do, feel stressed that you can’t keep up with all the demands on your time and seldom leave the office at the appointed hour.

We believe that if you did an honest audit of how you spend your time, you would find that about a third is spent doing tasks that you really shouldn’t be doing and about another third is spent in meetings where you make little or no contribution. All of this means that, on average, only about a third of your available time ...

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