Parenting Delegator Gifts

Stroll a Kid: $10 One Hour, $6 1/2 Hour.

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

God's Subcontractors

Paperwork No Me Gusta.

We're looking for someone who knows how to adapt, not adopt.

'Here comes your Daddy - Do you want me to do the talking?'

"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."

"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'?'

Desk trays: The Good - The Bad - The Ugly

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

10 Commandments if God was a Woman...

'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."

Bring It On!

Filing Trays.

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

Proud mother and new maid

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

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

In Tray, Out Tray and Not My Job Tray

Do you think I have a problem delegating?

"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."

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

"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!!"

'Only two cookies? What is this -- a quota system?'

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

"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."

"That's not a math lesson. That's just some notes to myself."

"I don't get it. I hired him to workout for me every day, and I still haven't lost any weight."

'Perhaps this graph will help you appreciate the jagged mountain range I climbed on my vacation.'

"At my age I prefer to delegate the blood, sweat and tears."

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