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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.

Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can't do by yourself.

I'm not going to suggest to a delegate at what they ought to do.

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them.

I have learned to delegate.