7 Levels of Delegation

Maggie Sun
3 min readNov 5, 2021

Jurgen Appelo, the prominent author of the book Management 3.0 that’s recognized as an agile classic has laid out a delegation model suitable for modern organizations as complex adaptive systems. This model comprises 7 levels:

1. Tell: you make a decision for others and you may explain your motivation; a discussion about it is neither desired nor assumed.

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Maggie Sun

MBA, certified agile coach and experienced strategy analyst, specializing in business agility, agile leadership, Beyond Budgeting, and general management.