Let It Go!: How to (Finally) Master Delegation & Scale Freedom Across Your Organization

by Emily Morgan

As an entrepreneurial leader, you know you need to delegate. In fact, it’s the key to growth. But effective delegation isn’t as simple as handing off tasks. Unless you approach it thoughtfully and systematically, your plate will quickly fill back up.

Let It Go! is a fresh look at delegation that gets to the heart of why we struggle with it. You’ll learn step by step how to shift your mindset and implement proven techniques to create space for more of what you love. Then, you’ll discover how to scale delegation across your organization, giving your team the permission, autonomy, and tools they need to better leverage their time. By making this simple shift, you’ll attract and retain great talent while creating limitless potential for business growth.

Embrace a delegation system that supports you and your team in doing their best work and maximizing everyone’s contributions. Full of concepts, tools, and real-world examples, Let It Go! will help you master and then cascade a powerful delegation mindset throughout your organization.

186 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 24, 2022

Reviews

[Scott Pearson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entrepreneurship draws people who aren’t afraid of taking risks and who are willing to put in the work. However, this field also has its share of pitfalls… like not being able to transform work requests into work for others. Leaders often get to their positions by getting things done. The practice of leadership, however, often means letting others get things done. The handoff process is called delegation. In this book, Emily Morgan dissects this topic from psychological, technical, emotional, financial, and economic angles.

As for strengths, this book provides a thorough but brief analysis of delegation. Morgan has clearly contemplated and mastered this topic from many perspectives. Beyond mere inspiration, this book offers actionable advice to overcoming common roadblocks towards getting others working. For example, she encourages leaders to set an hourly rate for themselves and continually ask themselves, “Is this task worth my hourly rate?” She centers leaders to think of impact first, not the safety and security of what’s comfortable.

The main shortcoming of this book lies with its size. It’s incredibly short. I liked its fast pace, but I wanted to learn more when no more material was to be had. Further, this book needs to present more material about delegating to technological tools. Technology is a huge force multiplier in the modern workplace, and its use promises only to increase with coming artificial intelligence. Delegating work to these tools through skilled workers is a complex subject, though, that deserves careful treatment. Making these tools itself is an entrepreneurial focus. I would have liked to have read more about this relevant topic.

Overall, this book provides a solid foundation for learning how to get others involved in doing the work instead of hoarding it all to yourself. As Morgan admonishes, even delegating 80% of a task to someone while leaving the remaining 20% for yourself can result in significant scalability. Short pearls like this fill the book and provide business readers the opportunity to improve their own work performance – and their team’s work performance. Leadership is about enabling others to enact meaningful change. This book equips readers to lean into this principle more deeply by freeing their teams to join in the fun.

[Steve Preda · Rating 5 out of 5]

A complete time management system for entrepreneurs

This was possibly the best book I’ve ever read about time management. It teaches the mindsets, process and techniques for managing your time to maximize your fulfillment and purposefulness. The book is applicable to anyone, but especially helpful for entrepreneurs that are looking to elevate themselves and continually increase the value of their own and their team members’ contribution.
I will be using these concepts and assign this book to all my clients to teach them how to delegate and how to cascade playbooks and tasks down their organizations.
I particularly enjoyed the graphics explaining the delegation process, and the focus on the importance of “managing entrepreneurial energy” as much as managing time.
I expect this book to become a classic work that will help business owners delegate for decades to come.

[Sherida L · Rating 2 out of 5]

A recommendation from my boss. Wasn’t really applicable but has some nuggets for those who can’t get past triggers of stress. Let them by Mel Robinson was a bit better. Could have also been the tone of the audio book. May have been different if I read it.