Delegate, Don’t Abdicate
by Miki Saxon
There is no dearth of information available and that is especially true when you are looking to improve your management skills.
My cyber buddy Elliot Ross writes an excellent blog about tech for tech challenged SMB managers.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote Self-starter Does Not Mean Self-managed and Elliot used it to discuss the same problem in IT.
In his post he hits the bull’s-eye with a phrase that any manager at any level in any size company would be wise to tattoo on their frontal lobe.
There is a big difference between delegating your IT services, and abdicating them.
Substitute whatever your group does for ‘IT services’ and you have one of the best and most succinct pieces of management advice I’ve ever seen.
But knowing it is not the same as applying it—every time for every person in every situation.
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