Decision-making Diva Gifts

"Thanks for your input Branston, but I've decided to go with my intution"

'OK, everyone just chill out a minute! I need some time to process all of this.'

'How can we solve this problem by eating?'

"I make decisions as much with my gut as I fo with my brain. Let's eat."

Second Thoughts

"Corner pocket, I think, but let’s see what Intrade says."

'That's three 'ayes', two 'nays', one abstention, and one 'go jump in the lake'.'

'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'.'

'All those in favor of having anchovies on our pizza will signify by saying aye.'

"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."

"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

"I know I should have gotten a cart, but I can't give up now."

"I don't know whether to love you or leave you - but then that's the reality of arbitrage."

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

Fork in the trail.

"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!"

"Heads, we go with the analytics. Tails, we don't."

The inevitable conflict of interest facing every crisis manager.

Illogic Tree

'I'm afraid the motion has been carried and you lost.'

'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.'

"I can't decide which I'd rather do- make a twenty-billion-dollar bid of turn down a twenty-billion-dollar bid."

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

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

I'm just saying he picked a hell of a time to have a Susan Boyle moment.

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

I hear you are good at making snap decisions.

'Then it's agreed - we all keep our arms raised until someone blinks.'

'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'.'

'I hate long meetings so in order to save time can we agree to talk at once?'

The Do/Don't Decision Makers.