What Harvard Taught Me About Delegation
Harvard Business School doesn’t just give lip service to the concept of delegation—it practically forces it on its students. They don’t “teach” delegation as an important aspect of effective leadership. Nor does Harvard instruct students on how to assign work and trust that it will be completed with excellence. Instead, HBS creates situations for students to EXPERIENCE delegation.
For example, there is far more work than any one person could possibly handle alone. So, literally everyone forms study groups. They are not assigned officially by the school. It is just a practice done in the culture.
So study groups were a way of life. They were the first “lesson” in delegating. We learned how to 1) count on other people, 2) establish and articulate the specific responsibilities of each person 3) appreciate that we are all much stronger as a team than any one of us could have been as an individual.
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