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Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.

Donald Rumsfeld

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
Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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Business Operation Planning Thinking
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
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
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Dangerous Error Lack Margin
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
If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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Please Try
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
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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Bsuiness Motivational Politics Risk
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
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Earn Money Tax
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
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Knowledge Weakness
Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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Ground Perfection Pretend
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War
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

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