Gwen Stefani Quotes

I always delegate. If someone is very good at something, whatever it is, he will be in charge.

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

Delegate it to the manager. You have this really good staff that will take care of everything for you. You just have to delegate it and trust it.

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

If you want someone else to do a task, don't do it yourself.

I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.

He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

I believe in delegating power.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.

My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.

Once you have set the goal, give your staff the space to get there. If you micromanage, you will be able to do very little.

I try to hire good people and let them do their job and don't question how they do things.

Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.