Decision-making Devotee Pillows

'Hmmm...What would John Dewey do?'

Devils and Angels

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'.'

'You just don't know when to give up, do you?'

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

Courage. Love.

"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."

'I'm 60-40 in favor of the 60.'

'The secret to my success? Even as a kid, I never accepted that annoying phrase, 'None of your business.''

"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."

Chris Froome

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

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

Fork in the trail.

"Use your head, follow your heart and go with your gut."

"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!"

"They'd sold out of #1's."

The inevitable conflict of interest facing every crisis manager.

Illogic Tree

"As you know we've made a lot of acquisitions lately, and the last one we made seems to have resulted in us buying ourselves."

'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.'

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

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

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

Enter. Exit. Your Choice

I hear you are good at making snap decisions.

'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.'