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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Donald Rumsfeld

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
Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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Appropriate Learn Often
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Earn Money Tax
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem
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

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