This month’s leadership quote:
“Great leaders delegate success, not tasks.”
—Anonymous
Frequently the leaders I work with tell me they are willing to delegate, as long as they trust the person to whom they are delegating. Makes sense. And yet, what happens when the person they delegate to doesn’t deliver?
For many leaders the answer is, I step in, because the risk of failure is too great.
In my experience, it’s when the leader won’t or can’t step in, that true delegation happens. The corollary to this quote is really, “great leaders delegate success and failure”. Hard to do, sometimes costly to do, and is there another way that will allow for scale?
The initial results of my Pivot are excellent. I feel I have much greater clarity regarding the next 3-5 years.. 