Career, Delegation and Outsourcing

Whoops! I’ve Been Doing It All Wrong.

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 21, 2017

Stop being a warehouse — try to delegate/outsource all of these items to paper, planners, and assistants so they can help you focus on the important and not only the urgent. And when the mental whirlwind causes you to forget something or procrastinate on an important task, your mental Jenga stack of blocks fall apart.

Outsourcing

Outsourcing Delegation Efficiency Planning

Follow the Green Lights – Small Business Success is a Mixture of Strategy and Intuition

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2015

It offers everything they want in a career, and it is an opportunity to create income and security for today and tomorrow. Delegate or outsource the rest. Your ability to hire staff, delegate and outsource can help you reach your professional and your personal goals much quicker. So, why do they fail?

Strategy

Strategy Succession Outsourcing Delegation

Mastering Time Management: 5 Hacks to Optimize Your Productivity

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2024

Delegate Tasks With a Laundry Service Household chores, such as laundry, can consume a significant portion of your day. Consider outsourcing this task to a laundry service rather than spending valuable time sorting and folding clothes. Here are five innovative time management hacks to help you make the most of every moment.

Productivity

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You Can’t Delegate Talent Management to the HR Department

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

GE’s talent management people, for example, play a critical role, at both the corporate and business-unit level, in filling key positions, insuring smooth successions, driving company-wide review processes, and building tools that managers can use to direct their own careers. On paper, this approach makes perfect sense.

Talent Management

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What Are You Not Good At?

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

And I've outsourced to my husband all bills, legal matters, licensing issues, negotiating contracts and more (he's a keeper). If you're not good at doing what you make your living doing, then you probably need to consider a career change. Outsource or delegate (lucky you!). You should be great at what you do.

Outsourcing

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Why Sales Ops Is So Hard to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

They must hire, develop, manage, and lead a team of people with diverse and specialized competencies who do fundamentally different jobs and likely have dissimilar career aspirations. Strategies that use both internal and external (outsourced) resources enable sales ops leaders to build and manage these diverse capabilities cost-effectively.

Offshoring

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The Imperfect Balance Between Work and Life

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

This plagues everyone, but especially women who are candidates for high-powered careers. A woman executive who doesn't drink coffee never learned how to make it, thus saving many hours of time over the years while never being forced into coffee-service role early in her career. Not exactly your typical job.

Chief Operating Officer

Chief Operating Officer Belief Systems Micromanagement Outsourcing

Are Chore Wars at Home Holding You Back at Work?

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2017

“I would feel like I was being selfish by spending that time on my career — for example, by staying late at the office to finish an important project — rather than doing something I knew needed to be done around the house,” she told me. Reluctance to delegate.

Delegation

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Can You Count on Yourself?

Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A life in which you’ve outsourced control over your destiny. Personal Responsibility Can’t Be Delegated. While getting help may seem tempting at first glance, it can become habit-forming. If that happens, you’ll end up sacrificing more than you can imagine — self-determination. The result? If that sounds scary, it should.

Advice

Advice Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Delegation

Are You Planning to Go on a Diet?

Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 28, 2020

Personal responsibility can’t be delegated. Don’t outsource your responsibility or expect others to do the heavy lifting. Spend less time thinking and talking and more time doing. Don’t believe in fairytale solutions. Don’t search for quick-fix answers. A band-aid approach is often a short-lived solution. It can’t be done for you.

Planning

Planning Outsourcing Commitment Delegation

Is Self-Reliance More Than a Buzzword?

Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 13, 2020

You have a choice to make between owning your life and controlling your destiny or outsourcing that responsibility to others. Personal Responsibility Can’t Be Delegated. Your choice — to accept or evade personal responsibility — may be the most important decision you’ll ever make. Here’s why…. Is that what you want?

Outsourcing

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Frank Sonnenberg On Matters That Matter

Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 14, 2019

Personal responsibility can’t be delegated or outsourced. Rodger Dean Duncan is the bestselling author of LeaderSHOP: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice From Today’s Top Thought Leaders. Be proud of the way that you carry yourself and the way that you treat others. If you’re not responsible for your actions, who is?

Advice

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How to Prepare for Maternity Leave

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

“Part of running a 21st-century company with a 21st-century work force is establishing systems that allow for women to go out and return from maternity leave with minimal impact on the company or on their careers,” says Joan Williams, founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law.

How To

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

When we interviewed 45 such people across 39 companies in 8 industries in the United States and Europe, we found that by identifying low-value tasks to either drop completely, delegate to someone else or outsource, the average worker gained back roughly one day a week they could use for more important tasks. (We

Productivity

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When Personal Tragedy Strikes, Downshifting at Work Doesn’t Always Help

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Now back at work as a single parent, she’ll face a choice: To find ways to continue to pursue an intense professional life without support from a spouse, or to throttle back her career to give her more time to focus on parenting. I delegated, I simplified everything, and I leveraged IT. I still do that today.

Chief Technology Officer

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Leadership Digital

Whoops! I’ve Been Doing It All Wrong.

Follow the Green Lights – Small Business Success is a Mixture of Strategy and Intuition

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What Are You Not Good At?

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The Imperfect Balance Between Work and Life

Are Chore Wars at Home Holding You Back at Work?

Can You Count on Yourself?

Are You Planning to Go on a Diet?

Is Self-Reliance More Than a Buzzword?

Frank Sonnenberg On Matters That Matter

How to Prepare for Maternity Leave

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