Delegating to your direct reviews is easy. They report back to you, so while you assign work, they comprehend it’s a part of their job. However with friends, it’s trickier. Take what occurred to Preston, who had lately stepped right into a VP function main Buyer Expertise. His first main initiative concerned rejiggering workflows throughout Gross sales, Assist, and Product—all overseen by fellow VPs with aggressive quarterly targets of their very own. “I used to only inform my staff what to do,” he informed me. “However now I spend half my day convincing colleagues to prioritize my initiatives alongside theirs.”
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