I’m fed up with being bombarded by trivial requests for authorisation that are continually thrust uphill to me. So much of my work is just signing off on miniscule decisions that really could, and should, have been authorised by one of my staff. Lots of my time and effort – which ultimately means the public’s money – gets chewed up approving small-scale requests that should never have made their way to me. No matter how many times I explain that staff should exercise their delegated authority for routine decisions, I find myself in the same position over and over again. Case in point: today I...
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