There are many reasons to keep work on your desk that could go to others. But as you grow as a leader and take on increasing responsibility, delegation becomes vital to your success, the success of your team, and the success of your organization. If there are so many good outcomes to delegating, why is it so difficult?
“I live with the terror of implicit expectations,” my client told me. Just hearing him say that conjured up several memories of tripping over others’ implicit expectations only to find myself on the receiving end of their anger when I didn’t perform to expectations they never explicitly expressed to me.
When you think of where to find good leaders, what comes to mind? The corporate world? Political leaders? History? What about in a high school in urban Richmond, Virginia whose student body includes residents of four of Richmond’s six public housing projects?