Delegation Dazzler Gifts

'You won't need a desk since you'll be delegating everything.'

'I hate leaving work when I feel I could have delegated more.'

'A few more years in this job and you'll learn how to delegate stress.'

God's Subcontractors

Paperwork No Me Gusta.

'Miss Carruthers, check and see if we have an extradition treaty with Disneyland.'

'Why don't you try seeing it from your point of view?'

"Never do today what someone else can do tomorrow."

'As my subordinate, naturally I expect you to take the heat on things that otherwise would make me uncomfortable.'

Man with cat on the end of fishing rod, catching fish.

'Ah, Williams, are you familiar with the term ‘Poisoned Chalice'?'

"Just put that in my, 'I'll get to it when I can, I'm only human' pile."

'I'll need some people to boss around.'

'The boss is taking me along for a working vacation. I'll be doing his work while he has fun.'

Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to President Obama.

'I start my day by making a list of everything I need to do . . . and who I can get to do it for me.'

"I learned early, if at first you don't succeed, delegate."

'Only the years when the market was bullish...'

No need for you to read this. You seem to have got it to a fine art.

The Need for Delegation

"I'm going to need your room cleaned by end-of-day."

"'Time management' is an essential executive skill. . . I spent the first hour on a Monday morning the delegating tasks and the rest of the week napping."

In Tray, Out Tray and Not My Job Tray

"Find out who's on vacation and then add this stuff to the workload on his desk."

'Bill, we've decided to send you back to the minors for a while so you can brush up on your delegating!'

"Change my spots...? No, that's never crossed my mind!! I guess if I really had to, then that's definitely something I'd outsource!!"

"Can I add just one more project to your workload?"

"I'm delegating my New Years Resolutions, you'll be running a marathon in July!"

'I hate frisking magicians!'

"THIS looks like a job for ... somebody else."

'I really lose patience with people who moan all the time about their supposed 'workloads'.'

"I don't have scientific breakthroughs. I have people who do that for me."

"My management style is to hire good employees and then get out of the way while they work."

'I believe that if something is worth doing, I'll have my people do it.'

Man with two in trays on his desk asks man with two out trays; 'Shouldn't one of those be mine?'