Delegation Master T-Shirts

'In the ineterest of overcoming my reluctance to delegate, starting Monday i want you to do all my worrying for me.'

"I delegated all my responsibilities, now there's nothing left to do."

"Dad, what's inertia?" "Sorry, too trivial. Go and ask your mother!"

'Would you please get Baxter for me?'

Do you think I have a problem delegating?

In Tray, Out Tray and Not My Job Tray

"The best way to tackle a big project is to break it down into small pieces that you can then pester other people into doing for you."

Bring It On!

Delegation.

"Just find out what they're paying me to do around here – and do it."

"Give a man a job, and he'll work all day. Teach a man to delegate, and he'll take the rest of the day off."

"Johnson gave it to Bradley to give to Webster to give to Adams..."

'Anything else?'

Filing Trays.

'I've had a hard day at the office. It's not easy working other people's fingers to the bone!'

Oh sure, unload it on me to do it/Out.

Desk trays: The Good - The Bad - The Ugly

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

'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.

Junior barrister prompting a deaf and testy chief

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

"I need to clone myself."

'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'?'

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

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

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'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."

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

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