How to avoid accumulating monkeys?
How to avoid accumulating monkeys? Develop a subordinate initiative.
— from Leadership & Business (Leadership/Business) · On Managing Yourself by HBR
In the book
Delegate, and mean it. A leader who lets every problem climb onto his own back ends up carrying a zoo. The trick is to keep handing the problem — the "monkey" — back to the person whose job it is, and to develop their initiative instead of your own exhaustion. Teach people how you want decisions made, then let them make them. — Leadership & Business (Leadership/Business)
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