Delegation Dazzler T-Shirts

'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?'

"I need to clone myself."

"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.'

'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."

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

Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to President Obama.

'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.'

'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."

"'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."

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."

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

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 hate frisking magicians!'

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

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

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

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

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

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