While I could rattle off the benefits of “delegating” or “ops people”, I don’t think I’ve seen a highly-discrete TAP + flowchart for realizing when you’re at the point where you should ask yourself “Have my easy-to-delegate annoyances added up to enough that I should hire a full-time ops person? (or more).”
Many people whose time is valuable seem likely to put off making this call until they reach the point where it’s glaringly obvious. Proposing an easy TAP-like decision-boundary seems like a potentially high-value post? Not my area of specialty, though.
My guess is that one gets a reasonable start by framing more tasks as self-delegation (adding the middle step of “decide to do” / “describe task on to-do list” / “do task”), then periodically reviewing the tasks-competed list and pondering the benefits and feasibility of outsourcing a chunk of the “do task”s.
Creating a record of task-intentions has a few benefits in making self-reflection possible; reflecting on delegation opportunities is a special case.
While I could rattle off the benefits of “delegating” or “ops people”, I don’t think I’ve seen a highly-discrete TAP + flowchart for realizing when you’re at the point where you should ask yourself “Have my easy-to-delegate annoyances added up to enough that I should hire a full-time ops person? (or more).”
Many people whose time is valuable seem likely to put off making this call until they reach the point where it’s glaringly obvious. Proposing an easy TAP-like decision-boundary seems like a potentially high-value post? Not my area of specialty, though.
My guess is that one gets a reasonable start by framing more tasks as self-delegation (adding the middle step of “decide to do” / “describe task on to-do list” / “do task”), then periodically reviewing the tasks-competed list and pondering the benefits and feasibility of outsourcing a chunk of the “do task”s.
Creating a record of task-intentions has a few benefits in making self-reflection possible; reflecting on delegation opportunities is a special case.