delegation-by-comparative-advantage
Use when assigning leadership roles to maximize team effectiveness based on relative strengths. Follows Fan Li's advice to Goujian: directly compare each advisor's capabilities across domains (military vs. civil) and assign primary roles where each person excels most.
65
77%
Does it follow best practices?
Run evals on this skill
Adds up to 20 points to the overall score
View guide
Passed
No findings from the security scan
Fix and improve this skill with Tessl
tessl review fix ./kg/ontology/ontology-v1/skus/procedural/skill_108/SKILL.mdDelegation by Comparative Advantage
Overview
A procedure for assigning responsibilities based on each person's relative strengths, demonstrated by Fan Li's advice to Goujian.
Steps
- Assess each advisor's strengths - Evaluate what each person does best
- Compare capabilities directly - "For military affairs, Zhong is not as good as Li; for governing the state and winning people's hearts, Li is not as good as Zhong"
- Assign primary role to the stronger candidate - Give civil administration to Zhong, military to Fan Li
- Send less critical person as hostage/emissary - Maintain core leadership at home
Decision Framework
| Task Type | Assign To |
|---|---|
| Military strategy/operations | Tactical expert |
| Civil administration | Governance expert |
| Diplomatic missions | Expendable but capable |
Expected Outcomes
- Optimal use of available talent
- Clear division of responsibilities
- Organizational efficiency
Verification
- Confirm that each advisor's strengths were directly compared across relevant task domains before assignment.
- Validate that the strongest candidate for each domain received that primary assignment, not a generalist compromise.
- Check that less critical roles (emissary, hostage) were assigned to expendable-but-capable individuals rather than core leadership.
- Repository
- baojie/shiji-kb
- Commit
79c272f
- Last updated
- First committed
Is this your skill?
If you maintain this skill, you can claim it as your own. Once claimed, you can manage eval scenarios, bundle related skills, attach documentation or rules, and ensure cross-agent compatibility.