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This arti­cle is a reprint of Wise Bread’s con­tri­bu­tion to OPEN Forum from Amer­i­can Express — where small busi­ness own­ers can get advice from experts and share tips with each other.

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Saw this in WISEBREAD some months back and clipped it in Ever­note. This is by Nora Dunn. This is very help­ful for me also as I have been doing a lot of trav­els the past sev­eral months. I will be leav­ing the coun­try some­time in June also so the tips here will surely come in handy.

One of the prob­lems we all have as lead­ers or man­agers is del­e­gat­ing work to peo­ple. Some­times, we have a prob­lem del­e­gat­ing (we’d rather do it on our own), and other times, we over-delegate (we pass on all our work to other people).

We already have an idea why this is so. The really wise lead­ers are wise enough to know that they don’t know every­thing. But we for­get this all the time and we act as if we don’t know that. So here is another reminder. :-)

Beauty and busi­ness are not nec­es­sar­ily top­ics you’d think of as going together, but most of us have heard of stud­ies link­ing good looks and career advance­ment. It cer­tainly doesn’t seem fair, but is it true? In a strange choice of Christ­mas spe­cial, the Econ­o­mist recently took a look at the issue. Not known for its sen­sa­tion­al­ist report­ing, the mag­a­zine nonethe­less came up with some pretty star­tling (and dis­il­lu­sion­ing) con­clu­sions. Among their most galling find­ings: dumb blond jokes aside, beauty is actu­ally cor­re­lated with intelligence.