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The principles involved in stewardship delegation are correct and applicable to any kind
of person or situation. With immature people, you specify fewer desired results and more
guidelines, identify more resources, conduct more frequent accountability interviews,
and apply more immediate consequences. With more mature people, you have more
challenging desired results, fewer guidelines, less frequent accountability, and less
measurable but more discernible criteria.

Effective delegation is perhaps the best indicator of effective management simply because
it is so basic to both personal and organizational growth.

The Quadrant II Paradigm

The key to effective management of self, or of others through delegation, is not in any
technique or tool or extrinsic factor. It is intrinsic -- in the Quadrant II paradigm that
empowers you to see through the lens of importance rather than urgency.

I have included in the Appendix an exercise called "A Quadrant II Day at the Office"
which will enable you to see in a business setting how powerfully this paradigm can
impact your effectiveness. As you work to develop a Quadrant II paradigm, you will
increase your ability to organize and execute every week of your life around your deepest
priorities, to walk your talk. You will not be dependent on any other person or thing for
the effective management of your life.

Interestingly, every one of the Seven Habits is in Quadrant II. Every one deals with
fundamentally important things that, if done on a regular basis, would make a
tremendous positive difference in our lives.

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