“stop defaulting to asking every talented person you have to work more hours doing stuff other people can and should be doing.”
by tommye barie
the succession insitute
as we said in our previous column, why you must constantly push work down, we are talking about how firms will need to alter their thinking regarding outsourcing, administrative support and the administrative time of partners and managers. we discuss how the lack of delegation impedes competency development, why partners working more hours end up creating a weaker bench, and more.
outsourcing
in this case, we are talking about outsourcing offshore. for many years, firms turned away from this idea because of the fact that they need to inform their clients that the services they provide were not 100 percent made in america. and most of our firms would say something like, “our clients won’t tolerate us shipping their data overseas” or “our clients will leave us if we outsource some of our work to india or china.” both of those statements continue to be proven wrong every day.
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