Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
DONALD RUMSFELDBe able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.
More Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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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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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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The way to do well is to do well.
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Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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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.
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Remember where you came from.
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Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
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Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
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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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Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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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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If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
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With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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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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