Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.
DONALD RUMSFELDTest ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.
DONALD RUMSFELDPreserve the President’s options. He may need them.
DONALD RUMSFELDAmidst 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.
DONALD RUMSFELDReduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
DONALD RUMSFELDArguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
DONALD RUMSFELDReduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers – they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
DONALD RUMSFELDThe way to do well is to do well.
DONALD RUMSFELDThere are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
DONALD RUMSFELDBe precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
DONALD RUMSFELDWhatever 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.
DONALD RUMSFELDDon’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.
DONALD RUMSFELDIf you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
DONALD RUMSFELDKnow that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.
DONALD RUMSFELDRemember where you came from.
DONALD RUMSFELDEveryone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
DONALD RUMSFELDLearn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.
DONALD RUMSFELD