Joan Baez Quotes

I am great at delegating when someone is doing great work. The problem - and this sounds terrible - is that there are very few people who are strong enough for you to be able to delegate to.

I think I'm a great organizer. Not that I'm organized, but I'm a great organizer of other people.

I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done.

Basically, we've learned to delegate. We just grew tired of becoming too psychotic and straining to make the records ourselves.

While the scale of our library is certainly attractive to our users, equally important is the quality of the content we provide and our state-of-the-art processing operation that vets every single piece of content that's submitted to ensure only the most suitable content is included.

I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being a filter. So it's kinda cool. Like I've created my own utopia, removing the boring stuff and showing only the amazing stuff.

If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.

I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.

When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.

One of the great advantages that I had in my career is I started trading 24 hours a day in my early 20s, and I had to learn to delegate to people.

Getting out any weekly magazine requires many hours of reading, choosing, discarding, and thinking beyond the obvious.

A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

Delegate - work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn't depleted.

Do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it.

Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work

I learnt from an early age this need to delegate responsibility out to other team members as there is just too much for one person to do themselves. What is the point of hiring talented team members if you don't give them the freedom to make the most of the chance you have given them?

People that take responsibility are often given responsibility!

You run a major risk when you assume that you alone have all the answers: You don't, and that's okay. You don't have to be afraid to admit there are certain things you either don't like to do or aren't any good at. You reach a goal by covering all your bases, and you cover all your bases by hiring good people.

You can't get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.

I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.

Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

She often had to remind herself that she couldn't do everything alone. She wasn't always the best person for the job. Sometimes she got tunnel vision and forgot about what other people needed.

You cannot foster a collaborative environment when people's offices are completely locked, where you cannot even see the assistant because the offices are so big.