One FTE – impressions of a corporate life

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delegating diaries

original publish date: 23rd March, 2010

decades on …

Those seat-filler-at-the-Oscars-type delegations are excruciating to watch, never mind experience, with the delegate getting little more than exposure therapy out of the process.

I’ll just wait until they get back.

transcript

FTE #1: I need you to act as my delegate while I’m away.

FTE #2: I’m assuming I can approve expenditure and will have full decision authority?

FTE #1: Of course not. Just go to my meetings and act empowered.

Caption: Soft delegations. The comforting illusion of continuity.