Competitive Mastermind Gifts

Manager. Managing a political campaign and a baseball team are alike in many ways. A campaign is launched with a "first pitch," when a candidate gives a speech selling himself or herself. I change pitchers based on the game situation. In politics and baseball, sometimes it's best to come from the right side and sometimes it's best to come from the left side. We study our competitors' weaknesses and exploit those. In politics we call that "opposition research." And I don't worry about the

"That's Paul, he's our head of partnerships..."

"We're playing doctor. Do you have any old magazines for our waiting room?"

"My hackers just collapsed your country's economy."

'I was in a camouflage unit, so this one is for Hide and Seek.'

'It's some more story ideas from Francis Bacon.'

'Oh, believe me -- you don't want to hear it in layman's terms!'

"I hope I get rock and you get scissors, or I get scissors and you get paper, or I get paper and you get rock."

"I think you might need to start again."

To attract a bigger audience, the world chess federation allow fans to distract an opponent when it's his move.

'He's been hiding out here for 20 years. Apparently, his buddies forgot to tell him the paintball tournament was over.'

Notoriously losing pieces, the Varns could only have family game night by putting together whatever they could find. 'Checkmate!' 'You sank my Battleship!' 'You didn't say 'UNO'!

"The team needs LEADERSHIP, anyone have a view on that?"

"Not the most impressive strategic plan I've ever seen."

'With 5% spent on talent, 5% on production, and 90% on marketing...I smell WINNER!'

"This is super. I asked for super-duper."

Carlo Ancelotti

"It's such a nice day. Why don't you go outside and plagiarize something?"

The imagery attacks the compalcency of the casual web surfer and uses a visual cacophony of discordant images to excite and enthusethe casual visitor...

Jurgen Klopp Caricature

"O.K., Saddam, we want a full and accurate accounting of what you've got - or else?"

"See - that's how he's able to write all those plays."

"To be honest, it's the same stuff just in different bottles!"

'With your permission sir... checkmate.'

I don't like the looks of this.

"We're targeting a specific demographic: the utterly clueless."

"A Leading cosmetics company believes our drilling mud would ake an excellent skincare product."

'And finally, there's option three, a classic business model that would reduce our marketing, supply-chain and production expenses by 85 percent!' '

'I see you plan to grow by 50 a year!'

Management by committee: 'The buck stops here, here, here, here,,,'

Alex Ferguson

Businessman's schedule full of confrontations.

Digital Marketing

What are they complaining about...the work is challenging,interesting, demanding...AND we let them do it for 80 hours a week.

'No wonder the company is in trouble!'