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"I'll delegate when I find good people." Translation: "I'll trust them after they prove themselves." Plot twist: They can't prove themselves until you trust them. Break the loop. Delegate to develop. Here's how: 1️⃣ What should you delegate? Everything. Not a joke. You need to design yourself completely out of your old job. Set your sights lower and you'll delegate WAY less than you should. But don't freak out: Responsibly delegating this way will take months. 2️⃣ Set Expectations w/ Your Boss The biggest wild card when delegating: Your boss.  Perfection isn't the target. Command is.  - Must-dos: handled  - Who you're stretching   - Mistakes you anticipate   - How you'll address Remember: You're actually managing your boss. 3️⃣ Set Expectations w/ Yourself  Your team will not do it your way.  So you have a choice: - Waste a ton of time trying to make them you?   - Empower them to creatively do it better?  Remember: 5 people at 80% = 400%. 4️⃣ Triage Your Reality - If you have to hang onto something -> do it.  - If you feel guilty delegating a miserable task -> delete it.  - If you can't delegate them anything -> you have a bigger problem. 5️⃣ Delegate for Your Development  You must create space to grow. Start here:   1) Anything partially delegated -> Completion achieves clarity.  2) Where you add the least value -> Your grind is their growth.  3) The routine -> Ripe for a runbook or automation. 6️⃣ Delegate for Their Development Start with the stretch each employee needs to excel. Easiest place to start: ask them how they want to grow. People usually know. And they'll feel agency over their own mastery. Bonus: Challenge them to find & take that work. Virtuous cycle. 7️⃣ Set Expectations w/ Your Team  Good delegation is more than assigning tasks:  - It's goal-oriented  - It's written down  - It's intentional When you assign "Whys" instead of "Whats", You get Results instead of "Buts". 8️⃣ Climb The Ladder Aim for the step that makes you uncomfortable:     - Steps over Tasks  - Processes over Steps  - Responsibilities over Processes  - Goals over Responsibilities   - Jobs over Goals  Each rung is higher leverage. 9️⃣ Don't Undo Good Work Delegating & walking away - You need to trust. But you also need to verify. - Metrics & surveys are a good starting point. Micromanaging - That's your insecurity, not their effort. - Your new job is to enable, motivate & assess, not step in. ✅ Remember: You're not just delegating tasks. - You're delegating goals. - You're delegating growth. - You're delegating greatness. The best time to start was months ago.  The next best time is today. 🔔 Follow Dave Kline for more posts like this. ♻️ And repost to help those leaders who need to delegate more.

Most managers don’t delegate. They abdicate. They dump an unwanted task and vanish. Then a week later, they reappear - expecting miracles. Then they wonder why their team lacks initiative, confidence, capability, and growth. They wonder why it isn't working. And the results aren't coming. Why people don’t respect them. And why their career stalls. Delegation isn’t about dumping tasks. It’s about leverage: 1 + 1 = 3. Done well, it builds trust, accelerates growth and creates a strong culture. Done badly, it breeds resentment, confusion and rework. Effective leaders delegate. The rest drown. Here’s how to do it properly: 1/ Focus on what only you can do Delegate everything else if you want to grow. 2/ Invest time in doing it properly Delegation isn’t dumping - invest upfront for clarity and payoff. 3/ Choose the right person Match tasks to skills, ambition, and capacity. 4/ Make your support explicit Say it out loud: 'I’ve got your back.' 5/ Celebrate (other's) success Celebrate wins. Support setbacks. Then go again. 6/ Don’t mandate how You set the outcome. They choose the process. 7/ Make it a habit Build a culture where responsibility is shared, not hoarded. Delegation is how sh*t gets done. How your team grows. How you grow. And how you get real results. ♻️ 💚 Follow for No Bullsh*t leadership and career advice.

🔍 Are you truly delegating...or just shifting tasks around? 👇 When leaders delegate with intention, they don’t just offload work They empower their team and multiply their impact. Here’s how top leaders delegate effectively to create real change. --- 6 Proven Delegation Techniques to Amplify Your Team’s Impact 1️⃣ Struggling to match tasks to the right person?      ➟ Skill-Will Matrix      Why it matters: Aligning tasks to both skill and motivation enhances performance.      How it works: Assign tasks based on each person’s skill level and willingness to take on new challenges. 2️⃣ Feeling stuck in micromanagement mode?      ➟ RACI Framework      Why it matters: Clear roles reduce overlap and build accountability.      How it works: Define who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed for each task. 3️⃣ Afraid of losing control?      ➟ Check-in Meetings      Why it matters: Keeps you updated without hovering over your team.      How it works: Schedule regular, outcome-focused updates to stay informed and empower your team. 4️⃣ Overwhelmed with deciding what to delegate?      ➟ Decision Matrix      Why it matters: Prioritizing by urgency and importance helps you delegate smarter.      How it works: Use the matrix to decide which tasks to handle, delegate, or drop. 5️⃣ Need clarity on expectations and accountability?      ➟ SMART Goals      Why it matters: Specific goals give your team clear direction and benchmarks for success.      How it works: Set goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. 6️⃣ Worried about maintaining quality?      ➟ Clear Guidelines      Why it matters: Clear instructions reduce errors and keep standards high.      How it works: Provide step-by-step instructions, desired outcomes, and examples for reference. --- Delegation isn’t just about handing off work—it’s about creating a team that thrives. As Steve Jobs once said:   “Great things in business are never done by one person.” --- 💬 Which technique will you try first? Drop a comment to share your thoughts! 👇 ♻️ If you found this helpful, share it with your network to empower more leaders.   ➡️ Follow Jay Mount for more insights on impactful leadership.

I watched a brilliant executive work 80-hour weeks whilst their team waited for decisions. The irony was crushing. They weren't scaling their impact - they were bottlenecking it. After studying delegation patterns across 50+ high-performing leaders, I've identified why most executives fail at letting go. It's not a control issue. It's a clarity issue. The Hidden Cost of "Faster to Do It Myself" Every hour you spend on work someone else could handle is an hour stolen from what only you can do. The maths is brutal:  👉 Senior executives average 21 interruptions per day 👉 Each task switch costs 23 minutes of refocus time 👉 Leaders who delegate effectively see 33% faster team growth 👉 Poor delegation creates 40% higher burnout rates The Elite Delegation Framework That Changes Everything: Step 1: Define Your "Leadership Bubble" Before you can delegate effectively, you must know what belongs to you. Ask yourself: What can only be done by me? Where does my time create compounding returns? What work energises rather than drains me? Everything outside this bubble is delegation territory. Step 2: The "Talk-Back" Technique ❌ Don't ask "Any questions?" ✅ Ask "Walk me through your approach." This simple shift reveals misalignment before it becomes expensive mistakes. Step 3: Build Transfer, Not Just Handoff Stop delegating on the fly. Five minutes of clarity saves five hours of correction. Define:  ✨ What "done" actually looks like  ✨ When it's needed (not just "ASAP")  ✨ What success metrics matter  ✨ Where they should focus their energy The Psychology Behind Elite Delegation: Top performers don't just hand off tasks - they transfer understanding. They create context, not just instructions. They build capability, not just completion. The Result? Teams that think like owners. Decisions that happen without you. Growth that accelerates instead of stalling. Your delegation quality directly determines your leadership ceiling. Which task are you doing today that someone else could own tomorrow? ♻️ Share this with someone who needs an empowering high five 👉 Follow Liz Bradford for insights to boost your wellbeing, career and augment your business

Most managers can't delegate... Because they never learned the difference between giving orders and giving ownership. I spent years micromanaging. Checking every detail. Reviewing every decision. Controlling every outcome. I thought I was being thorough. Really, I was being a bottleneck. The shift happened when I stopped delegating tasks... And started delegating outcomes. Here's the difference: Task delegation sounds like: "Send this email by 3pm with these exact words." Outcome delegation sounds like: "We need the client to understand the delay. Handle it." One creates robots. The other creates leaders. If you want a team that runs without you, master these fundamentals: 1/ Give clarity on three things ↳ The role (who owns what) ↳ The goal (what success looks like) ↳ The deadline (when it needs to happen) Everything else? Let them figure it out. 2/ Set standards, not steps ↳ Define quality expectations ↳ Share the non-negotiables ↳ Then get out of the way 3/ Create feedback loops, not surveillance ↳ Weekly check-ins beat daily hovering ↳ Ask "What obstacles can I remove?" ↳ Not "Show me everything you did" 4/ Match tasks to strengths ↳ Give analytical work to analytical minds ↳ Give creative projects to creative people ↳ Stop forcing square pegs into round holes 5/ Start with the outcome ↳ "Here's what we need to achieve" ↳ Not "Here's 20 steps to follow" ↳ Let them own the how 6/ Give context, not just commands ↳ Explain why it matters ↳ Show how it fits the bigger picture ↳ People work harder when they understand impact 7/ Coach through mistakes ↳ Don't jump in to fix everything ↳ Ask "What would you do differently?" ↳ Build their judgment, not dependency The formula is simple: Clarity + Trust + Feedback = A team that runs without you. Most managers think delegation means less work. It doesn't. It means different work. Better work. The work only you can do. Stop managing tasks. Start developing people. 👊 What’s one task you’re delegating this week? 💬👇 --- ♻️ Repost to help a manager stop being a bottleneck ✚ Follow Cory Blumenfeld for more entrepreneurial insights and motivation. I'm on a mission to inspire 1M everyday people to start their own business and find their voice in the process.

How do we build data pipelines that don't break under pressure? A pipeline that not only scales but is also resilient to failure? I've been designing a solution using an Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) on AWS, and it directly tackles these challenges. This architecture's goal is to move data from an external CRM, through a processing-and-optimization phase, and into a Redshift data warehouse, all while being fully automated and fault-tolerant. Here is the step-by-step flow: 1. Ingestion & Event Trigger: The pipeline kicks off when a raw .csv file lands in an S3 bucket. This action immediately triggers an s3:ObjectCreated event, which is sent to a central EventBridge bus. 2. The Decoupling "Firewall": This is where the magic happens. A rule on EventBridge routes the new file event to an SQS Queue. This queue acts as a crucial buffer. It doesn't matter if we get 10 files or 10,000, the queue holds them, preventing the system from being overwhelmed. 3. Intelligent Transformation: A "Transform Lambda" polls this queue for jobs. When it finds one, it retrieves the raw CSV, transforms it into the highly-optimized Parquet format, and saves it to a separate 'processed' S3 bucket. 4. The Event Chain: The new Parquet file's creation triggers its own custom event ("ParquetFile.Created") back to the EventBridge bus. A second rule sees this event and invokes the "Load Lambda." 5. Final Load & Notification: This Load Lambda executes a COPY command, loading the fast, columnar Parquet data into Redshift. Upon success, it publishes a message to SNS, and the BI Team gets an immediate email: "The data is fresh and ready for analysis." The Business & Technical Wins This isn't just an engineering exercise; this design delivers key benefits: Superior Resilience: The SQS queue ensures no data is ever lost. If a downstream process fails, the message is safely retried without bringing the entire pipeline to a halt. Component Decoupling: Each service (ingest, transform, load) is independent. We can update, scale, or fix one part without breaking any other, a must for agile development. Performance & Cost: We use serverless components (Lambda, S3, SQS), so we pay only for what we use. Plus, converting to Parquet makes Redshift queries significantly faster and more cost-effective. Total Automation & Observability: The pipeline is "hands-off" from start to finish. The final SNS alert provides a clear feedback loop to stakeholders, building trust in the data.

Built 3 companies to $200M. Here's what I learned about delegation: Most CEOs think they're bad at delegating. The real problem? They're delegating wrong. The hard truth: You're not protecting your team by doing everything.     You're: Burning yourself out Bottlenecking growth Breaking trust     Your team needs to feel valued, not protected. Here's my proven system:     1. The Mindset Shift I used to think:  "No one can do this as well as me." Reality check:  When I got a concussion and couldn't work, my team excelled.     They just needed space to step up.     2. The Success Formula Before delegating any task, define: • What does success look like? • What's the deadline? • What resources are needed? • How will we measure results?     Clarity creates confidence.     3. The Communication Machine Create clear channels: • Slack = company chatter • Notion = project discussions • Email = external only • Weekly memos = alignment     No one-off conversations about projects. No decisions in DMs.     4. The Trust Test Ask yourself: "Would I pay someone $1M/year to do what I'm doing right now?" If not, why are YOU doing it? Your job is to: • Set vision • Build systems • Lead strategy • Make key decisions Delegate everything else.     5. The Weekly Ritual Every Friday, ask: • What did I do this week that someone else could do? • What meetings could I skip? • Where am I the bottleneck? • What systems need building?     Then take action.     6. The Team Power-Up Your team needs to know: • Where we're going • Why it matters • How they contribute • What success looks like     Give them this clarity, and they'll surprise you. The Final Truth: A CEO doing $10/hour tasks is a $10/hour CEO. Your company needs you operating at your highest level. Delegation isn't about doing less. It's about focusing on what matters most.   ♻️ Repost to help a leader in your network  🔔 Follow Christine Carrillo for more

HOW TO MANAGE YOUR STAFF WITH CONTEXT, NOT CONTROL Are you really delegating or just creating very expensive assistants? "Can you handle the client presentation?" sounds like delegation, but if you're still dictating exactly what slides to include, how to structure the agenda, and which talking points to hit, you've just outsourced your typing. You now have the world's most overqualified PowerPoint intern! Real delegation isn't about offloading tasks. It's about offloading decisions. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TASK DELEGATION AND OUTCOME DELEGATION: TASK DELEGATION: "Please create a customer onboarding checklist with these 12 specific items." OUTCOME DELEGATION: "New customers are confused by our platform. Can you design an onboarding experience that gets them to their desired outcome faster?" One creates a very expensive copy-paste machine. The other creates a problem-solver. HOW TO DELEGATE DECISION-MAKING AUTHORITY, NOT JUST TASKS: Instead of "Run all pricing by me first," try "You own pricing decisions under $50K. Here's our margin framework and competitive positioning. Make the call." Instead of "Run all social media posts by me first," try "Our brand voice is professional but approachable. You decide what to post but run strategy changes by me quarterly." THE "CONTEXT, NOT CONTROL" APPROACH: Give people the background information that informs your decisions, not just the decisions themselves. "I usually prioritize enterprise clients because they pay us 10x more than small businesses, but if a smaller client could become a case study for a new market we want to enter, that changes the math entirely." Now they can make good decisions without you peeking over their shoulder. WHY EXPLAINING YOUR REASONING IS MORE VALUABLE THAN GIVING INSTRUCTIONS: When you explain the "why" behind your thinking, you're not just delegating the current task—you're teaching someone to think like you would about future situations. THE FINAL TEST: Can this person make good decisions about things you haven't specifically discussed yet? If not, your system still needs improving. What's one decision you could teach someone else to make instead of making it yourself? *** I’m Jennifer Kamara, founder of Kamara Life Design. Enjoy this? Repost to share with your network, and follow me for actionable strategies to design businesses and lives with meaning. Want to go from good to world-class? Join our community of subscribers today: https://lnkd.in/d6TT6fX5 

Problem It Solves Accessing large volumes of data from Amazon S3 Standard can introduce latency and throughput bottlenecks, especially in ML, analytics, and high-performance computing workloads that need repeated or rapid access to the same data. Blog Summary The blog introduces a solution that uses Amazon S3 Express One Zone as a caching layer for S3 Standard. It sets up a data transfer pipeline using AWS Step Functions and AWS DataSync to move frequently accessed data into S3 Express. This reduces access time and boosts performance significantly. In a test, ~2.9 TiB of data was transferred in 4 minutes 25 seconds at a cost of ~$20, enabling faster and lower-latency compute access. https://lnkd.in/e9m4YHmH Pablo Scheri

The delegation mistake that almost killed my expansion: I was teaching people WHAT to do instead of WHY it matters… WHAT I USED TO SAY: • "Handle this task every Monday" • "Check these numbers weekly" • "Follow up with these clients" WHAT I SAY NOW: → "We do this every Monday because consistency builds customer trust" → "We check these numbers because early detection prevents bigger problems" → "We follow up because our reputation depends on reliability" The difference? Understanding creates ownership. Tasks create compliance. When people understand the WHY behind the WHAT: → They make better decisions when you're not there → They solve problems instead of just reporting them → They care about outcomes, not just completion True delegation isn't giving people tasks… It's giving people ownership of outcomes. What task are you delegating that should really be an outcome you're empowering someone to own?