How to deal with delegation?
One of the basic skills of good management and leadership is delegation. By delegation, responsibility to complete a task is given to a subordinate or colleague. There are numerous positive aspects of effective delegation, and these and the strategies of delegation are discussed in any book or course about human(-resource) management. By this post, however, I would like to elicit a discussion about how to actually avoid or deal with delegation.
One advanced strategy leaders employ when delegation is being resisted (i.e. when the subordinate is telling s/he cannot/does not want to take the responsibility and complete the task) is to not delegate the task itself but only the responsibility to find a person who can actually complete the task.
In this world there are more subordinates than leaders, and I feel they would greatly appreciate and benefit of knowing what is your effective strategy to refuse delegation?
We should start by yourself, which one is your strategy for refuse delegation? :)
And the next question, why do you think there are more subordinates than leaders?