Navtej Kohli Shares Importance of Effective Delegation of Work
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Navtej Kohli Business Blog tells a short story on the effective delegation of work in words of Navtej Kohli himself. Navtej Kohli summarizes the short story followed by its moral in business world below.
A Wolf had been prowling around a flock of Sheep for a long time, and the Shepherd watched very anxiously to prevent him from carrying off his Lambs. But the Wolf did not try to do any harm. Instead he seemed to be helping the Shepherd take care of the Sheep. At last the Shepherd got so used to seeing the Wolf about that he forgot how wicked he could be.
One day he even went so far as to leave his flock in the Wolf’s care while he went on an errand. But when he came back and saw how many of the flock had been killed and carried off, he knew how foolish to trust a Wolf as he exclaimed. “I have been rightly served; why did I trust my sheep to a Wolf?”
Moral of the Story - It is very important to delegate the tasks wisely and only to the trusted people. Effective and successful managers know that in order to climb the ladder of success it is important to assign tasks to right people only. Trusting everyone blindly always harms in the end.