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

Donald Rumsfeld

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Decision Guidance Lack Random
Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
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Challenge Interesting Life Public Service Time
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Knowledge Weakness
Remember where you came from.
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History One Liner Past Remember
Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Government Human Being Politics
Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Error Opportunity Serious
Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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Appropriate Learn Often
Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
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Ill Shoes Speak Success Walk
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.
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Imagination Knowledge
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
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
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
First rule of politics: you can’t win unless you’re on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
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Ballot Lose Politics Rule Win
Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
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Edge Leadership Necessary
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem

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