Don't 'over-control' like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.

Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

Never assume the other fellow will not do something you wouldn't do.

Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here.

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.