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Donald Rumsfeld Quote - Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.
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Improvement Performance President Value Wonder
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Advice Rule
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
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
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Dangerous Error Lack Margin
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Bsuiness Motivational Politics Risk
Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Government Human Being Politics
If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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Doubt Inspirational Right
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Knowledge Weakness
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
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
If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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Fact Intelligence
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Decision Guidance Lack Random
Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.
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Criticism Publicity Receive
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

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