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

Donald Rumsfeld

Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem
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
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
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
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
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
Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
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Challenge Interesting Life Public Service Time
If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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Please Try
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
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
The way to do well is to do well.
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Inspirational One Liner
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
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Bsuiness Motivational Politics Risk
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Earn Money Tax
If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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Doubt Inspirational Right

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

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