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Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

Donald Rumsfeld

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Bsuiness Motivational Politics Risk
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.
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Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
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Leadership Money Option President
Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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Appropriate Learn Often
It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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Criticism Mistake Principle Task
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
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
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Dangerous Error Lack Margin
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
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.
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Decision Government Imperfection Knowledge Politics Reflection War
If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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Fact Intelligence
If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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Please Try
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
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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