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“Don’t delegate tasks, delegate ownership” — Casey Watts

Story:

At a party recently, some guests arrived early and offered to help set up.

They expected me to tell them exactly what to do (delegating tasks)

Instead, I told them my goal and trusted them to do it: “set up the food so it’ll be very easy for folks to get at the food, whatever that looks like” (delegating ownership).

They did a MUCH better job that I would have come up with!