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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.

Donald Rumsfeld

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.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Business Error Move On People Performance Politics Training Wrong
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War
If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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Doubt Inspirational Right
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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Decision Guidance Lack Random
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Error Opportunity Serious
There are no “knowns.” There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy
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
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
Agreement can always be reached by increasing the generality of the conclusion; when this is done, the form is generally preserved but only the illusion of policy is created.
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Agreement Conclusion Creation Illusion Increase Policy
Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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Appropriate Learn Often
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
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
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

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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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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