The Secret To My Success

"The Rules Of Bureaucracy"

1. Preserve thyself.

2. It is easier to fix the blame than to fix the problem.

3. A penny saved is an oversight.

4. Information deteriorates upward.

5. The first 90% of the task takes 90% of the time;
the last 10% takes the other 90%.

6. Experience is what you get just after you need it.

7. For any given large, complex, hard-to-understand,
expensive problem, there exists at least one short,
simple, easy, cheap wrong answer.

8. Anything that can be changed will be, until time
runs out.

9. To err is human; to shrug is civil service.

10. There's never enough time to do it right, but
there's always enough time to do it over.

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"The Secret To My Success"

The other day I had the opportunity to drop by my
department head's office. He's a friendly guy and
on the rare opportunities that I have to pay him a
visit, we have had enjoyable conversations. While
I was in his office yesterday I asked him "Sir,
What is the secret of your success?"

He said "two words."

"And, Sir, what are they?"

"Right decisions."

"But how do you make right decisions?"

"One word." he responded.

"And, sir, What is that?"

"Experience."

"And how do you get Experience?"

"Two words."

"And, Sir, what are they?"

"Wrong decisions."
Received on Mon Jan 29 00:40:02 2007