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Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

Donald Rumsfeld

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 you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Advice Rule
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
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Bsuiness Motivational Politics Risk
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
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
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
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
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
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
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 the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Decision Guidance Lack Random
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
With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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Media Record

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