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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.

Donald Rumsfeld

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.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Goals Head Obstacle Work
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
The way to do well is to do well.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Inspirational One Liner
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Dangerous Error Lack Margin
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
If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
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Decision Doubt President
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
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Doubt Inspirational Right
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
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Knowledge Weakness
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
Remember where you came from.
DONALD RUMSFELD

History One Liner Past Remember
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
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
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

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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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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