In life from time to time we take on more and more responsibilities. In the monkey meet the manager seminar this is called monkey on your back the more responsibilities you take on the more monkey on your back. There was funny skits done to prove how easily it can happen. Someone call and say something is missing and everytime we as managers answer i will take care of it we take on another monkey on our back. Some of the monkey we take on can be delegated to someone else. So in the skit we were shown that when someone try to give us a monkey, we should look at them and say "what do you recommend" wait 10 seconds for them to find there own solutions. Always compliment them on the fact they find a solution and just follow up days later on how they doing with there solution. That way you never took on there monkey. I find the whole monkey idea work well in real life for example paying my son and my mom bills for them. Why should i take on there monkey when i can easily show them how to do it and let them do it on there own.
So remember now dont take on anyone monkey you have enough of your own.