Prune - Prune Businesses, Products, Activities, People.

Reduce The Layers Of Management. They Put Distance Between The Top Of An Organization And The Customers.

There Will Be Good Moments, And There Will Be Less Good Moments.

We Have An Orientation That Tends To Make Us Think That Everything Is Our Responsibility And That We Should Be Doing This. It Is The Iraqis' Country, 28 Million Of Them. They Are Perfectly Capable Of Running That Country.

In Our System Leadership Is By Consent, Not Command. To Lead A President Must Persuade. Personal Contacts And Experiences Help Shape His Thinking. They Can Be Critical To His Persuasiveness And Thus To His Leadership.

Don't Speak Ill Of Your Predecessors Or Successors. You Didn't Walk In Their Shoes.