Quotes about Delegation

Trump usually avoided: he had no interest in personnel problems, since they put the emphasis on other people.

Leaders must always be looking to give away their jobs to people who can do it as well or better than they. This calls for a level of intimacy between the leader and disciple that does not last. The leader begins to disengage; the disciple now becomes a leader. The closeness remains and is no longer defined by the amount of time spent together but by the openness with one another.

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He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.”

He will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and it will be as if you were God to him.

Surely you and these people with you will wear yourselves out, because the task is too heavy for you. You cannot handle it alone.

Have these men judge the people at all times. Then they can bring you any major issue, but all minor cases they can judge on their own, so that your load may be lightened as they share it with you.

So Moses chose capable men from all Israel and made them heads over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

And one man from each tribe, the head of each family, must be there with you.

I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.

Confer on him some of your authority, so that the whole congregation of Israel will obey him.

At that time I said to you, “I cannot carry the burden for you alone.