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Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn’t exist.

Donald Rumsfeld

Agreement can always be reached by increasing the generality of the conclusion; when this is done, the form is generally preserved but only the illusion of policy is created.
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Agreement Conclusion Creation Illusion Increase Policy
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
Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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Business Operation Planning Thinking
Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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Ground Perfection Pretend
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers – they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
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Lawyer Reduce Stream
Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
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Family Friendship Person Position Publicity
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
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
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Decision Guidance Lack Random
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Advice Rule
Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
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Ego Government Moderate People President
If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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Fact Intelligence
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
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

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