by Jim Schleckser | Mar 1, 2018 | Delegation
Don’t Forget to Delegate If you don’t learn to embrace the art of delegation, you won’t be able to build your business. The 70 percent rule gives you guidance on how to do it well. So when do you delegate a task? This central question stops many CEOs...
by Jim Schleckser | Jan 19, 2018 | Delegation
Great leaders and managers know these 3 Simple Steps To Hold People Accountable There is a common theme that many leaders struggle with: they don’t know how to hold their people accountable. Even if they are great at hiring A players, many leaders still are left...
by Jim Schleckser | Nov 9, 2017 | Delegation
Rather than thinking of delegation as a binary issue–either you delegate or you don’t–consider what it might look like on a sliding scale In a prior article, I talked about the power of using the 70% rule when it comes to delegating tasks to your...
by Jim Schleckser | May 24, 2016 | Decision Making, Delegation, Entrepreneur, Leadership, Management
Anyone who has kids or spends any time with them knows what I’m referring to. Inevitably, you will get to a point where a young child learns to express him or herself by being very vocal about what they don’t want to do. You know what happens, too, when...
by Jim Schleckser | Jul 2, 2015 | Business, Decision Making, Delegation, Leadership, Management
I have written before about people who have high information needs. You might call them “infomaniacs.” These are folks, or even organizational cultures, that prioritize making decisions using data, metrics, and plenty of analysis. And don’t get me...
by Jim Schleckser | May 6, 2015 | Delegation
Take Your Time Back One thing that all great CEOs have in common is that they have control over their calendar. Here are six questions to see if you have control over your schedule. As part of my job, I talk to hundreds of CEOs every year trying to identify the...