chapter 13
Delegate well
How many real working hours can you reliably deliver every day? The American Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that the average office worker is productive for 2 hours and 53 minutes per day. That may be an overestimate: they were assuming that all meeting time was productive. As a worker, there is a limit to how productive we can be, however long we are in the office or however efficient we are.
But, as a leader, there is no limit to how productive you can be. You can deliver far more than 24 working hours in a day. If you build the right team, they can collectively deliver thousands of hours of work every day. Your ...
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