Preserve
the President's options. He may need them.
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Presidential
leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost
options. They can be surprisingly effective.
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Prune
-- prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
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Public
servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.
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Reduce
the layers of management. They put distance between the top
of an organization and the customers.
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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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Remember
where you came from.
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Reports
that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting
to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are
things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns;
that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know
we don't know.
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This comment before the war in Iraq won Rumsfeld
the 2003 Award for Gobbledygook from the Plain English Campaign |
See
that the President, the cabinet and the staff are informed.
If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor,
not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.
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Strive
to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As
the degree of discretion increases, so too do bureaucracy, delay
and expense.
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