Management Communicate Iterate Delegate

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Run the Management triangle – Communicate, Iterate, Delegate – to catch issues early, improve work through fast feedback, and hand off responsibility progressively.

Category: Strategy & Measurement

Use this when delegated work keeps coming back wrong, deadlines slip silently, or you're managing people (or agents) without a feedback system.

Inputs

  • A roster of who owns what (people, VAs, or AI agents) with current assignments
  • A communication channel and cadence everyone has agreed to (daily check-in, weekly report)
  • The checklists/skill.md files that define what "done" looks like for each delegated task

Steps

  1. Define the triangle: Communicate (surface status and blockers early), Iterate (review drafts and improve in small fast cycles), Delegate (hand off progressively larger responsibility as quality proves out).
  2. Communicate: require a short status from every owner on a fixed cadence – what shipped, what's blocked, what's next. Silence is treated as a blocker, not as good news.
  3. Iterate: review work at the 10% draft stage, not at 90% – catching a wrong direction early costs minutes, not days. Give feedback as specific edits against the checklist, never "make it better."
  4. Delegate: start each person on one small, checklist-backed task; expand scope only after consecutive clean runs. Pair this with the Learn, Do, Teach apprentice model.
  5. When the same correction appears twice, stop and update the checklist or skill.md so the fix becomes systemic (Systematization triangle), not repeated verbally.
  6. Measure it: track rework count, turnaround time, and how many tasks each person owns end-to-end; report trends in the weekly MAA cycle.

Definition of done (QA checklist)

  • Every delegated task has an owner, deadline, and linked checklist
  • Status cadence is running – no owner silent past one cycle
  • Early-draft (10%) reviews happening before full builds
  • Repeat corrections converted into checklist/skill.md updates
  • Rework and turnaround metrics tracked in the weekly report
  • Linked back to the definitive article and relevant siblings
  • Complies with Blog Posting Guidelines (if it publishes content)

Example(s)

  • Example needed – run the Meta-Article Prompt after first real run. (The hub at /nine-triangles links live examples; pull the closest match into this slot.)

File in the zip: skills/strategy-measurement/management-communicate-iterate-delegate.md. Download the Task Library zip.

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