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Daniel Willingham on Twitter: "Guy I know was complaining about making his 8th grader's lunch. I didn't have presence of mind to say anything so 3 days later I made this. I don't think the guy's is...

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Guy I know was complaining about making his 8th grader's lunch. I didn't have presence of mind to say anything so 3 days later I made this. I don't think the guy's is on Twitter, this is my therapy.

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A 3 Minute Course On Delegating

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» A 3 Minute Course On Delegating | "…on the shoulder of giants."
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Delegating Responsibility: Why And How?

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Many would argue that delegating is easy, but they’re confusing real delegation—empowering, sharing and trusting—with asking someone to run and fetch a coffee. In order to make the whole thing work you should strike a balance between being a reckless chief and control freak over responsible consignment.

No article about delegation is complete without referencing the classic Steve Jobs quote: “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”
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Essay on the importance of academics learning how to delegate | Inside Higher Ed

Essay on the importance of academics learning how to delegate | Inside Higher Ed | Box of delight | Scoop.it

I’m going to go way out on a limb and speculate that many of us in academe are bad delegators, perhaps not able to delegate responsibilities to others at all, or perhaps operating as micromanagers at those times when we do go ahead and delegate responsibilities to others. Delegation, the how and when of divvying up work among multiple people, is an important skill, one that’s difficult to teach, difficult to learn, and entirely necessary within the structure of the modern academy.

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