Decision-making Savant Mugs

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

The Businessmen Have to Make Decisions from Many Options

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.'

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

"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

'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.'

'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.

'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.

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

Illogic Tree

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

'Very impressive, but is there anything you can't do?'

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

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

"Take this box of rumors, innuendo and hearsay and turn it into decisive leadership."

I hear you are good at making snap decisions.

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.'

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'.'

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

The Do/Don't Decision Makers.

Question man

'I have no doubt this is the best way to choose our new associate.'

I've learned over the years that for every action, there is equal and opposite blowback.