Brooks observed that, when projects are running late, leaders…

Brooks observed that, when projects are running late, leaders often add more people to speed things up-but the burdens of onboarding newcomers and coordinating more people make late projects run even later.

— from Leadership & Business (Leadership/Business) · Friction Project : How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Har

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The military has a clean phrase for the fix: commander's intent. You give people the intent — the why and the what — clearly enough that they can act and decide without you in the room. Beware the most common delegation blunder of all: when a project runs late, the instinct is to add people, but the burden of onboarding and coordinating the newcomers makes the late project later still. And when you do promote someone, handle it with care — a promotion stirs pride and anxiety in the one who rises and quiet resentment in those who hoped and didn't, and managing those feelings is essential to the whole thing working. — Leadership & Business (Leadership/Business)

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