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Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.

Donald Rumsfeld

Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
DONALD RUMSFELD

Ground Perfection Pretend
Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
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Edge Leadership Necessary
Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Activity Business People Product
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
Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.
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Motivational Work Hard
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
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Blame Boss Enough Problem
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
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Death Encouragement Tendency War
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
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Earn Money Tax
If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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Doubt Inspirational Right
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
Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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Business Operation Planning Thinking
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
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Criticism Inspirational

Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.

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