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Archive for delegation

How to Delegate Even If You Don’t Have a Team

June 11, 2019 by Michael Hyatt

Feeling overwhelmed? Wow, do we know what that’s like! When you’re caught in that whirlwind of tasks, it feels like you’re downrange at Top Golf. You get pelted with a new task every few seconds. It’s even worse when you don’t have a staff. With no one to delegate to, you just fall further and […]

Filed Under: Lead to Win, Leadership Tagged With: delegation, team

Hire This Role Immediately!

April 23, 2019 by Michael Hyatt

If you could make a single hire that would revolutionize your productivity, would you do it? Of course you would! But we’ve found that most leaders procrastinate when it comes to hiring an executive assistant.

Filed Under: Lead to Win, Leadership Tagged With: delegation, executive assistant, Hiring

When Delegation Becomes Abdication

3 Reasons Your Leadership Doesn’t Get the Results You Want

August 25, 2017 by Michael Hyatt

Tell me you’ve had this experience. You assign a task but then forget about it. I sure have. As a leader, I am not a micromanager. That’s good news for my team. But I have to be intentional that delegation doesn’t drift into abdication. It’s not always disastrous when this happens. If we’ve hired well, […]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: abdication, delegation, Extreme Ownership, growth, Leadership, responsibility

No, You Don’t Need to be Great at Everything—and Why You Shouldn’t Even Try

One Belief Holding You Back in Business and Life

June 22, 2015 by Michael Hyatt

If you’re an entrepreneur at heart like me, it’s tempting to wear every hat in the business. This is especially true if you’re cursed with being halfway good at all those jobs. That’s not a compliment, by the way. I should emphasize the word cursed. Think of it this way: Would you intentionally hire someone […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Leadership Tagged With: competency, delegation, entrepreneur, Leadership, team, teamwork

How to Defeat the Terrible Tyranny of Tiny Tasks

5 Simple Solutions to Get Back Your Time—and Your Sanity Too

April 22, 2015 by Michael Hyatt

My wife, Gail, recently purchased a DVD set of The Jetsons. Remember that? The cartoon imagined what life would be like in the future: robots, flying cars, and other conveniences—like minimal work hours. But it hasn’t panned out like that, has it? Believe it or not, since the 1930s economists and others predicted a future […]

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: automation, batch processing, batching, delegation, priority, Time Management, tiny tasks

The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make With Executive Assistants

June 30, 2014 by Michael Hyatt

How not to blow it with your executive assistant

I’ve worked with several executive assistants over the years, and I have found it is a make-or-break relationship when it comes to my success. Think about it: None of us can do it all on our own. We need to bring others into our work to help us succeed in it. And the bigger the […]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: delegation, executive assistant, Productivity, team management, virtual assistant

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