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Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.

Donald Rumsfeld

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.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Care Leadership Learm People Position
Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Need Option Preserve President
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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Goals Head Obstacle Work
Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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Appropriate Learn Often
Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
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Family Friendship Person Position Publicity
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
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
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War
If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
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Decision Doubt President
There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don’t know.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Imagination Knowledge
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
Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Government Human Being Politics
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Criticism Inspirational
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem
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.
DONALD RUMSFELD

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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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