08/15/2025

Delegate Problems, Not Tasks

Understand why managers struggle to delegate

Stop trying to delegate tasks. Start delegating problems.

That's the key insight from this conversation between MIT Sloan Management Review's Elizabeth Heichler and columnist Sanyin Siang about why delegation is so hard for managers.

"I personally had a goal to delegate more last year," Heichler said. "I think it's the one thing that I fell down on."

Please select this link to read the complete article from MIT Sloan Management Review.