Decision-making Master Gifts

Sign pointing to 'hindsight' and 'foresight'

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

"The job stress was already bad enough, but now I have to choose between 56 flavors of coffee."

"Can I savor this for a few moments? The ball's never been in my court before!"

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'.'

'I am willing to concede that the company has been underperforming of late...'

"That recruitment algorithm we’ve been using, I think we need to revisit it!"

Career Choices

"Must everything with you be a landmark decision?"

Desk Boxes: 'In', 'Out', 'Could Go Either Way'.

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

'As I see it, our choices are 'no' and 'hell no'.'

Stop saying 'You're the boss' I KNOW I'm the boss!

"Who's ready to see what's going to happen in the fourth quarter?"

'OK, let's see who's going to be the pack horse today: Heads or tails?'

"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."

'Then it's settled. We'll make 7 million with blue handles, 5 million with red handles, 4 million with purple handles and 2 million with green handles.'

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.'

"There's only one thing I hate more than a 'yes man', and that's a 'no man'!"

Medical student overdrafts...careers in the law.

'Worker or Soldier: Is that all you can suggest? Not much of a choice is there!...'

"I hear you have been split testing our online advertising campaign. I haven't got a clue what that is but stop it now."

'Sometimes I wish I had never sold my camels!'

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I... I... I..."

'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.

Wiseguys/Smartasses/Eggheads/Smarty Pants

Doubt or Certainy

"Graphs are like EKGs, they show the health of a company."

"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!"