Decision-making Maestro Mugs

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

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

'Your first executive decision?'

Desk boxes: way, no way, could go either way.

Higher Instincts/Middling Instincts/Baser Instincts.

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

'I don't know whether to straddle this issue or dodge it.'

Brian wanted to call the presentation "Synergy". Paula wanted to call it "Cooperation". They could never agree.

'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'.'

Mozart on a computer,

"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."

Traffic Management Strategic Group

"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."

'Henry was an undecided voter four years ago when he entered that voting booth, and I'm still waiting for him to decide and come home.'

"I can't solve for X. I have a fear of the unknown!"

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

Fork in the trail.

'All those in favour of my new proposal say aye. Those against, also say aye.'

Career Suicide

"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!"

The inevitable conflict of interest facing every crisis manager.

Sign pointing to 'hindsight' and 'foresight'

Illogic Tree

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

'Decision time. Which bridge to cross and which to burn.'

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

I hear you are good at making snap decisions.

"A workshop will be offered on the topic of decision-making....I could possibly take part....o the other hand...."

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

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.'

The emergence of a leader.

'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'.'