Outsourcing, for a very smart person, can be a real struggle. Knowing you can’t do it all yourself, you have to outsource. You really don’t have to break your back trying to get everything done yourself. With outsourcing, you can get more jobs done at almost the same efficiency level. The challenges with outsourcing has been summarized in Theodore Roosevelt’s quote
He said, “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what has to be done, and self-restraint enough to not meddle. So, two things; pick the best people and don’t meddle.
Picking the best people to get a job done is as important as the job itself. You can’t do it all, but when you pick the wrong people the workload becomes more because the cost of redoing a job badly done is usually on the high side. So make your selection criterion very thorough. People who will do the job as good as you would or even better.
You must also be careful. Most executives have an obsession for perfection, hence they cannot let people do their jobs. You did the selection, right? So trust yourself that you picked the right people. Don’t check in all the time, correcting them every moment and basically suffocating their workspace, and affecting their overall productivity and performance. Do your job and let them do theirs.
With this, more results will definitely be generated
