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Rule 1: Do Not Map Out Your Career

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Rule 2: Discover Your Talents Early, and Discard Your Fantasies Immediately

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Rule 3: Maintain Pervasive Professional Flexibility

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Rule 4: Get Lucky

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Rule 5: Promote the Organization, Not Yourself

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Rule 6: Connections Get You a First Chance, but Never a Second One

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Rule 7: When You Suffer a Setback, Come Clean and Bounce Back

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Rule 8: Learn to Take a Punch

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Rule 9: Work is a Member of the Family

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Rule 10: Find a Job that You Look Forward to Every Day

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Rule 11: Anger is a Tactic, Not an Emotion

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Rule 12: Harness Your Fear to Sharpen Your Professional Judgment

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Rule 13: Respect Ambition, but Destroy Opportunism

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Rule 14: Value Loyalty, but do Not Depend on It

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Rule 15: Put a Very Fine Line between Yourself and Your Subordinates

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Rule 16: Wield a Spiritual Shield, but Not a Spiritual Sword

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Rule 17: You do Not Have to be Good-Looking, but You Have to Look Good

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Rule 18: Take the High Ground and Never Give it Up

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Rule 19: Don't Lose Your Confidence for Very Long

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Rule 20: You Can and Must Develop Professional Charisma

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Rule 21: You Can Only Micromanage Ten Employees and About Six Hundred Square Feet

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Rule 22: The Invincible Executive Delves into Specific Problems at Great Depth

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Rule 23: Intimidation Chases Away Talent, Opportunity, and Creativity

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Rule 24: Spend More Time on Information Inflow Than Information Outflow

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Rule 25: Wring the Emotion Out of Risk Analysis

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Rule 26: Take Decisive Action to End Discord

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Rule 27: Get Results Through Alignment and Adjustment, Not Democracy

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Rule 28: Minimize Meetings

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Rule 29: Negotiate the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, but Leave the Games to Others

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Rule 30: Put the Interests of the Organization over the Interests of Individuals—Very Carefully

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