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If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

Donald Rumsfeld

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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Criticism Mistake Principle Task
Whatever your position, reach out to those who know more than you do, and have been around longer than you have. Find those people. Listen carefully. And learn.
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Care Leadership Learm People Position
There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don’t know.
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Imagination Knowledge
There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
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Fact Lie People
Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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Business Operation Planning Thinking
Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
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Ill Shoes Speak Success Walk
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Bsuiness Motivational Politics Risk
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Advice Rule
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
Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.
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Decision Government Imperfection Knowledge Politics Reflection War
What you measure improves.” A corollary rule in the military is that “You get what you inspect, not what you expect.
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Expectation Improvement Inspect Measure Military Rule
Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.
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Consult Decision Ideas Market Perspective Test
Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Government Human Being Politics
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Earn Money Tax
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product

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