Task Ownership Quotes

Let me be the one To do what is done.

Don't try to shift your responsibilities on to somebody else.

As employees, we are all given specific duties and carrying out these duties provides us with a great sense of responsibility.

Organizations should be built and managers should be functioning so people can be naturally empowered. If someone's doing their job, if someone's working in one of your warehouses, say, they should know their job better than anybody. They don't need to be 'empowered,' but encouraged and left alone to be able to do what they know best.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

At some level, you have to be able to say, "This is my task." It's in small, local ways that you keep yourself alive and refresh ideas that are always going into dead abstraction.

Whatever my job description consists of, becomes my job. Maybe it's just the way I tackle work, in general.

He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.