{"id":64,"date":"2009-08-07T01:35:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T08:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2009-08-08T13:10:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T20:10:42","slug":"delegate-vs-get-your-hands-dirty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/20090807\/delegate-vs-get-your-hands-dirty.html","title":{"rendered":"[Thinking] Delegate vs. Get Your Hands Dirty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am attending the Summer Workshop provided by the Haas School of Business of UC Berkeley for our new incoming MBA students. \u00c2\u00a0The workshop is ongoing, and one of the components, the Quantitative Method camp helped us review the very basic quantitative concepts in a business setting.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting point was that from Day One, the instructor talked about that the importance for us is to understand the fundamentals, and the rationale behind, but not the mathematics tricks, because it is very likely in the future we, supposed to be the future managers, will delegate the work to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>I understand and agree with the instructor, but here in this post I would like to extend my thoughts to a question:<\/p>\n<p>Delegate vs. Get your hands dirty (GYHD), which is better?<\/p>\n<p>It depends, I would say.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First, the feasibility of delegation. \u00c2\u00a0According to my experience, usually for a well-established, hierarchical organization, for example most big companies, once you climb the management ladder, you will have resources to delegate, and there will have lots of ambitious younger people who wish to get empowerment from you to grow themselves. \u00c2\u00a0However, if you are in a small company, or a start-up, it is very likely that you actually have no one to delegate to. \u00c2\u00a0After all, small companies lack of resources.<\/p>\n<p>Second, each of them has their own pros and cons.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pros of Delegation: \u00c2\u00a0Enough empowerment could help your team members get chances to grow their abilities. \u00c2\u00a0They might then appreciate your trust on them. \u00c2\u00a0Thus very likely the morale of your team could be maintained.<\/li>\n<li>Cons of Delegation and over-use of Delegation: \u00c2\u00a0You are stuck in an ivory tower dictating commands, while your subordinates are tired by the workload, and then hate you.<\/li>\n<li>Pros of GYHD: \u00c2\u00a0You know the very details of what the things actually going on, so you have true confidence of the reality. \u00c2\u00a0Also GYHD might \u00c2\u00a0be able to generate the practical atmosphere of &#8220;down to earth&#8221;, and encourage every team member to contribute to the actual work.<\/li>\n<li>Cons of GYHD: \u00c2\u00a0You as a manager have done the real things, so what your guys do? \u00c2\u00a0They either feel they have no value for the organization, or they feel you are kind of too <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Micromanagement\">micromanagement<\/a> (a management style where a manager closely observes or controls the work of his or her subordinates or employees.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So the conclusion: \u00c2\u00a0it really and has to depends. \u00c2\u00a0Depends on your goals, the team goals, the specific people in your team, etc&#8230; a lot of factors.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am attending the Summer Workshop provided by the Haas School of Business of UC Berkeley for our new incoming MBA students. \u00c2\u00a0The workshop is ongoing, and one of the components, the Quantitative Method camp helped us review the very basic quantitative concepts in a business setting. 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