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#27 | The weekly ritual that scales delegation (opens the original)
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Most founders delegate reactively. Something falls on their desk. They hand it off. The handoff works (or it doesn’t). Either way, next week they start from scratch, rebuilding the same trust and context they already built the week before. Delegation is something different.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_qPM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimag
#26 | Delegate So Clearly Your Team Can Act Without You (opens the original)
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The test of a good delegation isn’t whether the work gets done. It’s whether the work gets done when you’re on a plane, on vacation, or just unreachable for 48 hours.Most delegations fail that test. Not because the people aren’t capable. Because the brief wasn’t designed to survive a change of plan.The CrisisIn 2003, U.S. military commanders faced a problem that had plagued armies for centuries: the plan always changed.Radio contact failed. Conditions shifted. The original o
#25 | Why you're micromanaging people you thought you trusted (opens the original)
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There’s a specific kind of meeting founders hate. The one where you check in on something you delegated, and realize you have to re-explain the whole thing. That’s not your team failing. That’s a mismatch between the authority you gave and the maturity they brought.The CrisisIn the 1980s, two researchers named Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard identified a pattern in how managers deployed tasks to people. They found that the highest-perform
#24 | Delegation Fails on Day 1, Not Week 4 (opens the original)
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Your first instinct: your team dropped the ball. The real answer: the ball was never clearly thrown.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="813" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v9uV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_p
#23 | Be the bottleneck and your company will fail at the speed of your calendar (opens the original)
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Most founders describe their team as “not ready to take ownership.” What they’re actually describing is a delegation system they never built. There’s a difference. A big one. One is a talent problem. The other is an architecture problem — and only one of them is yours to fix.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PYK0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1685739-5076-4a
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