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If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.

Donald Rumsfeld

Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Blame Boss Enough Problem
If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Doubt Inspirational Right
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
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Business Error Move On People Performance Politics Training Wrong
Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Need Option Preserve President
Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Error Opportunity Serious
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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Please Try
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Bsuiness Motivational Politics Risk
There are no “knowns.” There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t know.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Deep Philosophy
What you measure improves.” A corollary rule in the military is that “You get what you inspect, not what you expect.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Expectation Improvement Inspect Measure Military Rule
Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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Business Operation Planning Thinking
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Earn Money Tax
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Knowledge Weakness
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
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Customer Distance Management Organization
The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don’t tell him the truth. Others won’t do it.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Deliver Failure President Price Truth

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