15 DISASTROUS DELEGATION
I will now use an episode of my own experience as a case study for disastrous delegation.
What's important here is that nothing that follows reflects on anyone else's skills, intentions or ability, except my own. It is also fairly extreme, though hopefully that helps to make the point.
A business I launched had been established less than two years when I gave birth to my first child. I had no maternity leave for the first and little more for the second some 17 months later. Nonetheless, I had been pretty good at delegating and a manager was employed to run the operation and team.
After five years I had opened another new business (actually my fourth), in retail this time, and the running of the first business in question ...
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