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Donald Rumsfeld Quote - You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Donald Rumsfeld

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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
If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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Fact Intelligence
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
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Decision Guidance Lack Random
Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
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Edge Leadership Necessary
If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
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Decision Doubt President
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Criticism Inspirational
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War
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
First rule of politics: you can’t win unless you’re on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
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Ballot Lose Politics Rule Win
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.
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Deliver Failure President Price Truth
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Knowledge Weakness
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Advice Rule
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
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Bsuiness Motivational Politics Risk

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