• Stop what you are doing; take the time to teach somebody to do a task. You all save a lot of time in the long run.

Delegate to the one with the most to lose and not to the one with the most to gain

Share credit with others. Your people will respect you and work more productively.

You can delegate authority, but you can never delegate responsibility for delegating a task to some one else. If you picked the right man, fine. But if you picked the wrong man, the responsibility is yours- not his.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Delegate to relive stress and give yourself time to deal with more strategic issues. Four eyes see more than two.

Give meaningful work to your high-potential people. It’s the best way to groom an able successor. It is those underneath who can hold you up. Do not keep a dog and bark yourself.

Delegate to motivate ambitious employees. That’s how you keep good people on the payroll. One can pass on the responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.

Delegate tasks that will improve the skills of your people and prepare them for higher level work.

For the best results, choose a busy man, the others have no time.

Delegating decisions saves you more time in the long run than delegating tasks.