For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.
Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.
So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.
Priority determines capacity.
For every hour of brains, you will be charged three hours. The other two hours go to management and project management, which is to say they are wasted.
I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.
Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.
Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
Due to my business commitments, I am faced with time constraints and have not been able to personally spend as much time as I would like on my causes. These efforts are handled by my team of several people.
If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
If you want a day free of work, you must expect others to have the same privilege.
Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work
The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.
I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.
I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it.
I have a lot of help to do chores so I can be with my family, and I never have any help over the weekends.
here's a huge amount of work that goes into placating a network in regular television. It's literally 70% or 80% of your workload, is showing them the material, getting their notes and presenting it to them and making sure they weigh in. It's a huge amount of work.
The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day
Measuring how hard your team is working by counting the number of hours they work or what time they get in and leave is how amateurs run companies.
