There are a few sparkles of light in the universe that burn as bright as someone who has mastered the ability to delegate… but this week Herman elevated himself to the rank of guru by delegating all his work current and future to someone else!
He did this by leaving the ATC team to go to a new team :( You will be missed Herman - see you in the pub later ;)
If anyone from Herman’s new team is reading let me know so you can help with documentation of Herman’s exploits into delegation mastery!
If you looking for the code for the carousel that Herman did/didn’t (it’s confusing, I know) blog about (click here for original post) then you can download it below:
(Hosted on my SkyDrive, since that was delegated to me too)
f(x) walks into a bar… the barman says “Sorry, we don’t cater for functions”
A truly great delegator is not made, he is born. So it shouldn’t surprise you that the delegator-ness runs in the family.
The other day myself and Willy were heading out to meet the delegators brother and the delegator got me to do his season greetings (say hi to my brother for me, wish him a happy festive season etc…).
Nothing too bad I thought, until I had finished meeting his brother and on the way out his brother did the same thing! Goes to show that birds of a feather delegate together (I just had to get one more cliché in).
Happy new year Herman!
We know that our esteemed delegator is a strong supporter of VSTS and TFS and are therefore notifying everyone, on his behalf, that Brian has notified the world of the new images, which will only expire end-2009. Get the details here: http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/brian/archive/2008/12/24/happy-holidays-and-look-what-santa-s-brought.aspx
Myself and Herman were sitting around on Thursday wondering why NO ONE was pitching up for the mini PDC. Admittedly it is quiet here, because it’s Christmas time and people are on leave, but to have NO ONE arrive is a bit much.
The next day we were sitting around wondering what happened, when we saw the white board and noticed the days (15th, 17th, 19th and 22nd). Thursday (18th) was not there… we all just assumed it followed on from each other, but Herman in his delegator wisdom had planned it better than that. By subtly skipping a day he made sure that the work for one day was delegated across two days with no one (myself, Henk and Zayd) realizing!
Moral of the story: Delegating work to someone is ok, delegating work to someone twice is better ;)
Robert and I rushed off to a customer this morning, only to be stopped by Herman at the main door of our team area … “Please tell my brother to have a festive season and a great holiday”.
BRILLIANT, you realise you are living with the master of delegation when you are oblivious to the fact that you have just become the messenger in his family as well.
Well, in the true spirit of his wishes, we wish everyone a festive season, a happy Christmas with family and a safe and successful port into 2009.
