This, too, will pass .

Let's see if I can put this in a way you'll understand. We like you because you're invisible.

The president knows, as I know, there are no indispensable men. ... He knows that I serve at his pleasure, and that's that.

Learn to say "I don't know." If used when appropriate, it will be often.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.