Arithmetic for Managers

Once upon a time, in a land far far away, there was this young, newly appointed manager. He was bright, intelligent and an excellent problem solver. In fact he was twice as good at solving problems than any of his six staff - that frustrated him. He could not rely on them to do the work as well as he could.

Because he was so much better at solving problems than his employees (and he was indeed better. He was faster, more effective and what he fixed? Stayed fixed!) he attempted to solve all the problems in his department by himself. He micromanaged everything. He was swamped. No matter how fast he ran from crisis to crisis there were more problems than he could solve on his own no matter how many hours he worked.