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Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

Donald Rumsfeld

Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Government Human Being Politics
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
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
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Earn Money Tax
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Dangerous Error Lack Margin
If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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Fact Intelligence
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
If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
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Decision Doubt President
If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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Please Try
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
Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Challenge Interesting Life Public Service Time
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
Remember where you came from.
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History One Liner Past Remember
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
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
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product

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