If you are not happy to do the work – say a simple thing like photocopying – don’t just palm it off to someone else because you don’t like doing it.

Now you may delegate photocopying to an admin person but when the admin person is not around, you should be willing to do it yourself.

I hope that is clearer!

If you are not happy to do the work – say a simple thing like photocopying – don’t just palm it off to someone else because you don’t like doing it.

Now you may delegate photocopying to an admin person but when the admin person is not around, you should be willing to do it yourself.

I hope that is clearer!

Excellent ideas! The only one I’m not quite sure about is “Don’t delegate anything which you wouldn’t do yourself”. I guess it depends on interpretation, but as a manager, you should delegate all the things you “shouldn’t” do yourself!
Keep up the good work!