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| Delegate, Dont Abdicate
One of the key skills for the leaders of growing businesses is
to 'get' the distinction between delegation and
abdication.
Many managers and business leaders fall into one of two extreme
categories:
They delegate too little and try to do it all themselves
or they give too much away, abdicating both their
responsibilities and the prerogatives of power.
As their businesses grow, many entrepreneurs try to
micro-manage. We've all heard the term, but too often we fail to
recognize the symptoms until it's too late. For entrepreneurs,
the sense that this is 'my company' or the belief that 'if I
want it done right I have to do it myself' causes them to hold
on too tightly and limit their results.
At the opposite end are managers who 'hire someone to do that'
and abdicate their role as supervisor and leader. One of the
first employees many entrepreneurs hire is a bookkeeper. As
entrepreneurs, they want to focus on building the business and
recognize that their time is not well used on the details of
bookkeeping. So, they hire someone and never think about it
again.
Big mistake! Every month or so, the newspapers carry a story
about someone embezzling from a small company. Too often,
unsupervised and unsupported, the bookkeeper simply took
advantage of an opportunity the owner created.
Effective managers delegate, but they also know that 'what gets
measured, gets done'. They monitor and train, they supervise and
support their people. You can't do it all yourself and simply
turning the job over to someone else and abdicating your role as
manager is not the answer.
About the author:
Gordon Goh is author of the free, informative website content of
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