Marc Haine explains why delegating meaningful work, not busywork, attracts top talent and strengthens your team. Assign people real responsibility and they'll perform better, your organization gets stronger, and you build a reputation as someone who develops people.
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you're working on important, significant stuff, not trivial stuff, because there's nothing that will repel the biggest, most talented, the biggest performers, the most talented people in your organization than trying to get people to do something that is low-level rather than something that is engaging and exciting and really moves the ball down the field. And I think that if you take that into account and you start to say, how can I build strength? Not only will you get more talented people involved in your organization, not only will you get better results from the delegation that you're doing, but your reputation within the company will rise not because you're doing it deliberately but because it's such a smart thing to do is to involve people in getting tasks done in a way that