Leadership: Delegation
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Managing technical teams: lessons from IC to engineering leader
Y Combinator
July 17, 2019
Management
9
Delegation
7
Hiring & recruitment
5
- Coding your way out of a team problem is always the wrong move.
- Removing one toxic person improves team output more than you expect.
- Leadership is providing clarity in ambiguity — not a title or charisma.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Building a team that attracts and retains top talent
Bill Gallagher
June 26, 2019
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
9
Delegation
7
- Top people aren't job-hunting — you have to find them yourself
- Ask employees their one life goal, then make it the company's mission
- Zero voluntary departures: why genuine care outperforms any retention tactic
Starting a business with a friend: how to do it right
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
May 14, 2019
Delegation
9
Contracts & agreements
8
Equity & cap tables
7
- Long friendships reveal character flaws before you're locked in together
- Vaguer agreements — not the friendship — destroy co-founder relationships
- Benchmark equity splits against real investors to remove personal bias
Seven lesser-known laws of leadership
Masters of Scale
August 26, 2017
Management
9
Delegation
8
Work-life balance
5
- Think big while executing today—future billions and daily user impact
- Delegate ruthlessly when you scale; your job multiplies through others
- Build teams of cognitive opposites who complement your weaknesses
Stop playing whack-a-mole by delegating outcomes, not tasks
Bill Gallagher
March 1, 2017
Delegation
9
Processes & SOPs
5
- Offering unsolicited solutions is doing someone else's job for them
- Apologise, hand over the target number, then step back
- Post the KPI visibly and review it in your regular meeting rhythm
How to implement lean: the three pitfalls leaders must avoid
Bill Gallagher
December 30, 2016
Delegation
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
- Only 4% of leaders are humble enough to make lean work.
- Delegating lean while staying in the conference room guarantees failure.
- Keeping the wrong people on the bus blocks any real transformation.