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Donald Rumsfeld

Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
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Edge Leadership Necessary
Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Need Option Preserve President
There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
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Fact Lie People
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Knowledge Weakness
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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Business Operation Planning Thinking
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
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 in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
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Decision Doubt President
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
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
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
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
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
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
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

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