If you go on holiday or a business trip and keep obsessively in touch via a mobile phone or Blackberry with the office, what does that say about your management style? About the trust you have in your colleagues ‘minding the ranch’? It says you don’t trust them. It says you cannot delegate meaningfully. It says you are a meddler and a micro-manager. So don’t do it! If you want to get rich, then learn to delegate. Don’t learn to pretend to delegate. Delegation is not only a powerful tool, it is the only way to maximise and truly incentivise your most precious asset – the people who work for
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