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Know which decisions you must make yourself and which can be delegated.
Effective delegation frees your highest-value attention for your highest-value work.
Tools, checklists, and automated processes are delegation targets.
Use clear criteria to decide what to delegate, what to automate, and what to keep.
Some decisions and responsibilities must remain with you — knowing which ones is a meta-skill.
Vague delegation produces vague results. Specify the outcome, constraints, and success criteria before handing anything off.
Specify the result you want, not the exact steps to get there. This preserves autonomy and invites better solutions.
Delegation without verification is abdication. Build lightweight checks to ensure delegated work meets your standards.
Trust your agents and systems — but build verification into the process, not as an afterthought.
A tool is a delegated capability — it does something you could do, but faster, more reliably, or at greater scale.
A well-designed habit is delegation to your future automatic self.
Your environment can enforce behaviors that willpower alone cannot sustain.
A well-written document delegates explanation, alignment, and decision context to the future.
A rule is a pre-committed decision that prevents you from having to re-decide the same thing every time.
Delegating too much creates disconnection from the work that matters and atrophies critical skills.
Holding too much yourself creates bottlenecks, burnout, and prevents others (and systems) from developing capability.
Delegation ranges from "do exactly this" to "handle it entirely" — know which level you are using.
Delegation is a skill you build over time — each successful delegation increases your capacity for the next one.
True control comes from building systems you trust to operate without your constant oversight.
Every effective delegation multiplies your capacity — the cumulative effect is exponential leverage.
Effective delegation means your results exceed what your personal effort alone could produce.