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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.

Donald Rumsfeld

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
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
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
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem
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
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
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
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
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
Remember where you came from.
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History One Liner Past Remember
With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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Media Record
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Advice Rule
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
If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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Please Try
Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
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Government Human Being Politics
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

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