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Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.

Donald Rumsfeld

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
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
Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn’t exist.
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Evidence Existence
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
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
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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Media Record
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
If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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Please Try
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
Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
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Goals Head Obstacle Work
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War
You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
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Army War
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.
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Deep Philosophy

Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.

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