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Cliffhangers

"The vote is tied. Half of us think the proposed plan is astoundingly asinine, and the other half finds it stupid beyond belief. Let's try to find a middle ground here, people!"

Moment of reckoning.

'Water? Still? Sparkling? Mountain? Hill? Bottle? Tap? Warm? Cold? Ice? Lemon?'

"A big decision has to be made. Assemble all my 'yes' men."

"Why did you speak to Dad? He can't green-light anything."

'Make up your mind! It's either ‘Yea' or ‘Nay', but not ‘Naybe.' '

'Well, it looks like the 'yea' has it.'

"I lost my management position in waste control because I refused to make trashy decisions."

Illogic Tree

The Businessmen Have to Make Decisions from Many Options

'We're finding out that those 'wrongs' we made 'right' were actually right after all.'

'We're making progress. I just got a firm 'maybe'.'

Desk trays - 'In', 'Out', and 'It depends'.

"Then it's agreed. Judgment Day, whenever it comes, will fall on a Thursday, so that they'll get the long weekend."

"I don't know what I want, but I do know what I don't want, and I won't know one until I see the other."

"I might just get a pie."

"Remember, Man of good Sense not here to do work on your behalf. Man of good Sense only here to help you on strategic level until you wise enough to overcome recession."

Traffic Management Strategic Group

'Someone round here has to make the important decisions.'

"So that is unanimous then - nobody has a clue what to do."

"The key to making the right decision is knowing which coin to flip."

Fork in the trail.

The inevitable conflict of interest facing every crisis manager.

"If you want my opinion you're damned if you do and damned if you don't."

'Unfortunately when our last window of opportunity opened up, we mistakenly crawled out of it rather than into it.'

'Narrow my options down to the good, the bad, and the ugly.'

Business cartoon of businessman in his office, a stop sign and nameplate that reads 'decisions stop here'.

I hear you are good at making snap decisions.

'You may choose either everlasting life or whatever is behind the curtain.'

"Finally I've been given some real authority. I get to choose what roast we order."

'Middle managers play tennis.'

'They've been like this ever since Mary presented her report. It's the worst case of paralysis by analysis I've ever seen!'

'So that's three 'yes' and two 'no' and one 'maybe yes maybe no'.'

Office of Strategic Scenarios: 'Best case...Worst case.'