Department Manager Mugs

'It is my department, but I still won't help you.'

'I like your style. I'm transferring you to the sales department.'

"The company's information flow is really simple: the boss doesn't tell the department managers anything, they don't talk to the team managers, who withhold everything from the workers."

"To become a department manager you've got to radiate authority and self-confidence! Authority! Self-confidence!!! Got me??!"

"The good news is you’re the only one we’re not firing ... the bad news is you’re the only one to run the department."

Whats ticking away in YOUR filing system?

"Peter's Joint Head of Communications."

"If we can just get beyond this 'I'm the boss' mentality and concentrate on a simple 'What I say goes' outlook, I think this will all work out."

'A few more years in this job and you'll learn how to delegate stress.'

"This is Briggs, our new department head. He's got an amazing knack for reducing complex problems into easy-to-understand witch hunts!"

'Well, I must say I never thought team-building exercises could be such fun.'

"Bill is in charge of our Ethics Department."

"Do you have a minute, Bob? I'd like to speak with you about the concept of 'leadership'."

Dave realised that Clive didn't see problems,only 'challenges to be embraced'.

"And this is our new HR officer in charge of morale..."

"Legal and accounting were O.K. with it, but I had trouble getting it past archery."

'Bring me an in basket and an out basket and some paperwork to shuffle between them.'

'Okay, people... The name of the game is Musical Cubicles! The winner gets to be the new district manager! Ready... set... GO!!'

'Attention, all department heads: the buck stops there. I've had it!'

'Daft title. How could you have 'backward' planning?'

'Pictures of your family?'

The Department Chairs react to the budget cuts.

"You have a grossly exagerrated view of your own importance. You'll make an excellent department head."

The Milbrook Verney chair in literature. The C.K. Frebish endowment for footnotes.

R&D - Relax & Doodle

The Department Chairs react to the budget cuts.

'You're popular? Your workers are (GASP!) satisfied?? I'm afraid you're not the right person for the Head of Department job!'

'Please send us an optimist to run the sales department, and a pessimist to run the credit department.'

'I need you department heads to put out a memo to the employees that they will be working from home...then, start packing...we're moving to Cleveland.'

"We need a miracle. Who runs that department?"

GRIN and BEAR IT desk nameplates.

"It's lonely at the top, but don't you love the solitude."

'Head of Ideas' In and Out trays

Purvison heads our environmentally-conscious growth fund

"I'm going to grab a snack, turn down the heat, check a few scores, put the clothes in the dryer and go to the bathroom. ... You need anything?"