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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

Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
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
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Advice Rule
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
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
With the press there is no ‘off the record.’
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Media Record
If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
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Decision Doubt President
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
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
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
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Dangerous Error Lack Margin
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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Expectation Improvement Inspect Measure Military Rule
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
Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
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Edge Leadership Necessary

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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