Outsourcing & The Olympics

As seen on the Zirtual blog

I’ll begin with two new discoveries I made this week: the first is that there is an Outsourcing Magazine and the second is that there’s a surprising amount of teams competing in the Olympics.

The first – the magazine – I stumbled upon. I had some questions, of course. Who writes their articles? Do they use a full-time staff? At what point would any amount of staff work seem disingenuous on the part of the magazine? Of course, none of that matters too much – what’s more important is that they write some great articles. More on that in a bit.

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3 (Wrong) Reasons Why You’re Not Delegating

As seen on the Zirtual Blog…

I want to make August into National Delegating Month.

Do I have that power? Well, no. But Zirtual founder Maren Kate might. Perhaps she has some hidden magic wand that I don’t know about – that, or a Twitter following of thousands strong to help march out the announcement.

Either way, the calls for task delegation are apparent. Zirtual’s growing, existing clients are finding better ways to use the service (more on that coming in future blogposts), and the Harvard Business Review blog network just published a post asking “Why Aren’t You Delegating?. Does it get much clearer than that?

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