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Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

Donald Rumsfeld

Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Earn Money Tax
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
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
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
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
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
The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don’t tell him the truth. Others won’t do it.
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Deliver Failure President Price Truth
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
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Criticism Inspirational
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Error Opportunity Serious
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
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Decision Guidance Lack Random
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
If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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Fact Intelligence

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