Memory is probably the most important thing you can have in a management position. Delegation means allocating the workload and remembering what you have to get done as well as who you want to do it and keeping the knowledge of why you want it done.

Of course you can plan and diarise everything or send memos or hand out bits of paper with basic details on it. But the best thing to do with getting work done and finishing jobs in the right order, time and manner as well as maintaining the required standard is to memorise the work inside out or totally organized from start to completion. Of course as well you will have to know how to do the job yourself or be able to it right through. You're memory is generated or obtained by what you have actually done yourself or what experience you have in that particular field or task. Memory means money and remembering to check all the details in any given job means how well it will turn out in the end.

Efficiency is based on effective follow up which means remembering what was required in the job and what had to be done to achieve it. The standard of the job will revolve around how much detail, effort and ability you have in the allocation and follow through of procedures. But all requires enough knowledge and the ability to remember what has to be done.