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

Donald Rumsfeld

If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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Please Try
Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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Business Operation Planning Thinking
What you measure improves.” A corollary rule in the military is that “You get what you inspect, not what you expect.
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Expectation Improvement Inspect Measure Military Rule
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Dangerous Error Lack Margin
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
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Earn Money Tax
Remember where you came from.
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History One Liner Past Remember
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
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
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
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
The way to do well is to do well.
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Inspirational One Liner
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
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
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
Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Government Human Being Politics

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