{"id":1725,"date":"2007-11-15T14:37:05","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T13:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/progmanager.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/15\/from-good-to-great-manager-part-4-the-power-of-delegation\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T14:37:05","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T13:37:05","slug":"from-good-to-great-manager-part-4-the-power-of-delegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2007\/11\/15\/from-good-to-great-manager-part-4-the-power-of-delegation\/","title":{"rendered":"From Good to Great Manager – Part 4 – The Power of Delegation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good bosses delegate.<\/p>\n

Great bosses set up sensible monitoring routines so that they know how that delegation is going.<\/p>\n

Good bosses engage employees in helping them with major projects.<\/p>\n

Great bosses give their team members the major projects and are available to support them as required. They give the team members room to operate – without cutting them off.<\/p>\n

Good bosses walk around the office talking to people – what Tom Peters calls Managing by Wandering Around or MBWA.<\/p>\n

Great ones do that too, but they are careful not to ‘intrude’. They use MBWA as a way of getting information that helps them to give accurate feedback, to coach effectively and to delegate.<\/p>\n