Leadership: Delegation
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The core COO skill: growing people, not managing functions
Cameron Herold
December 10, 2025
Delegation
9
Management
7
- COOs don't need functional expertise — just people skills
- Grow skills and confidence in tandem or your team freezes
- Delegate everything; your to-do list should never stay with you
How new managers can set boundaries without losing their team
HR Party of One
November 18, 2025
Management
9
Communication
7
Delegation
6
- Starting too soft makes tightening up later feel personal
- Apologising for directives signals your authority is negotiable
- Culture is shaped by what you tolerate, not what you say
Fire fast, retain A-players with personalised handcuffs
Cameron Herold
November 17, 2025
Delegation
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
- When your gut flags someone wrong, waiting only ruins them
- Repeat one line when firing — never engage the argument
- Retention only works when you tailor the deal to each individual
How to stop working on the wrong things as a founder
Rob Walling
November 9, 2025
Delegation
9
Outsourcing & delegation
8
- Your comfort tasks are almost certainly the wrong ones to do.
- Delegate any work with a certain outcome; keep the uncertain work.
- A calendar audit reveals 50–70% of founder time is wasted.
Seven delegation mistakes that prevent your business from scaling
Layla at ProcessDriven
September 25, 2025
Delegation
10
Hiring & recruitment
8
Outsourcing & delegation
6
- Hiring without a task list costs 100–300 hours of unplanned training.
- A shared task system eliminates you as the daily bottleneck.
- Hiring for 'nice to haves' instead of revenue-driving work delays every payoff.
General Dan Caine on leadership, 9/11, and flying over Washington
The Daily Stoic
September 11, 2025
Delegation
9
Resilience & grit
6
- One general's trust unlocked a pilot's hardest decision in wartime
- Flat organisations outperform chains of command in real crises
- Flight 93 passengers led without authority, obligation, or training
Team success is 90% structure, not in-the-moment coaching
Coaching for Leaders
September 8, 2025
Management
10
Delegation
6
- Real-time coaching drives only 10% of team effectiveness.
- The launch meeting alone determines 30% of how a team performs.
- Poorly structured teams can't be coached out of failure.
Stop doing everything: how to delegate and train your team
Cameron Herold
September 6, 2025
Delegation
9
Outsourcing & delegation
6
- Doing work yourself doesn't scale — training people does.
- "Bob can't do it" is an excuse, not a reason to keep the task.
- Train incrementally: Loom videos, ride-along, questions over lunch.
Delegate everything: why leaders must stop doing and start growing people
Cameron Herold
September 1, 2025
Delegation
9
Identity & self-belief
5
- Your to-do list has no name on it — delegate it all
- Ask 'who can do this?' not 'how do I do it myself?'
- No one ready? Pick someone and coach them through it
Four daily focus areas every COO must master
Cameron Herold
August 23, 2025
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Delegation
6
- Rate every project green, yellow, or red — daily.
- Know the top three metrics for every business area cold.
- Delegate 80% of your tasks; spend the time growing people.
Sales Technique That Beats "Send Me an Email" on Cold Calls
The Science of Scaling
August 21, 2025
Delegation
9
Resilience & grit
6
- Agree to the email request, then immediately layer on a calendar hold
- Confirm the invite was received before ending the call — that is where the meeting is won
- Re-engage the contact for a short prep call after multi-stakeholder meetings are booked to regain one-on-one discovery access
Stoic leadership and habit: action over theory and ego
The Daily Stoic
August 11, 2025
Delegation
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Productivity & habits
6
- Marcus Aurelius gave away half his power — voluntarily.
- Real strength is how much you empower others, not keep.
- Stoicism is a daily habit, not a debating framework.
Hiring & recruitment
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Hire accountable people instead of managing accountability
Cameron Herold
August 9, 2025
Hiring & recruitment
9
Delegation
7
Processes & SOPs
5
- Accountability is a hiring problem, not a management problem
- Delegate everything except your genius — 90% of your to-do list can go
- Fix root causes: one company cut a four-person team to one by solving seven problems
How to teach your expertise to others without losing what made you good
Coaching for Leaders
August 4, 2025
Delegation
9
Identity & self-belief
6
- Experts forget the pain of learning — that forgetting blocks good teaching
- The 'one thing' rule: more feedback creates overwhelm, not growth
- True expertise is an infinite horizon, never a destination you reach
How genes and hormones wire male and female brains differently
Andrew Huberman
July 28, 2025
- One gene, SRY, is the sole biological determinant of maleness.
- Female brains rewire three-fold every five days across the menstrual cycle.
- 2,500 neurons cut the male sexual refractory period from days to one second.