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Project managers have a tendency to want to carry the load themselves, even if it means working sixty hours a week. You were told to do everything within your normal working day. But, as a potentially good project manager, you probabll have the natural tendency of wanting to postpone some work until a later date so that you can do it yourself. Doing the activities, when they occur, even through transmittal or delegation, is probably the best policy. You might wish to do the same again at a later time and see if you can beat your present score. Only this time, try to do as many tasks as possible on each day, even if it means delegation. Question from chapter time management, Project Management Case Studies By Harold Kerzner 3rd Edition

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Project managers are the base of project because they handles all the activities from project start to project end and would not stop until the project is complete under the specified time even if they have to take a lot of work pressure and give most of their hours into the project. But even they are human beings so they can be tired and may have the tendency to think that if they put some of the activities to another team member like line employees then they would do multi tasking and complete the project in time.

Delegation is itself a task in which project manager has to make the decision to choose the right person to complete the project activities. Project managers do a lot of activities but it may be bad if they do all of them by himself because it can make project manager more constrained and limited so they can take support from functional managers as well line employees and delegate some tasks or activities to them to make project more effective and they will be more effective to do more task tomorrow if they delegate of transmit activities now.