CHAPTER 12

How to Excel in the Everyday Tasks of Leadership

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

– Peter Drucker

Why Great Delegators Make Great Leaders

At the party of leadership skills, Delegation is the drably dressed, quiet guy sitting in the corner. Seems boring.

People talk to him when they have to. Just enough to be polite. And, because he is sitting next to the chips. Then off to find someone else more interesting.

However, on their way home, they receive this text: “OMG! OMG! OMG! That nerd guy! He’s a gazillionaire! He makes rockets or creates genes or buys and sells countries or something!”

It turns out that Delegation only seems boring.

Actually, it turns ...

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