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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.

Donald Rumsfeld

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
Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Need Option Preserve President
Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
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Goals Head Obstacle Work
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
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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Argument Convenience Inevitable Integrity
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers – they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
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Lawyer Reduce Stream
The way to do well is to do well.
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Inspirational One Liner
There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
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Fact Lie People
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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Dangerous Error Lack Margin
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
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
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Criticism Inspirational
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
Remember where you came from.
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History One Liner Past Remember
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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Appropriate Learn Often

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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