Group Decision-making Guru Gifts

"Whoa, dude. You're talking about the hive mind mentality at this company like it's a bad thing."

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'.'

'We're like family. I look out for them. They look out for me.'

Business Admin - Group Think 101.

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

"Compare Calculate Contrast Before you make a move"

"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.

"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!"

Sign pointing to 'hindsight' and 'foresight'

The inevitable conflict of interest facing every crisis manager.

Illogic Tree

'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.'

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

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

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

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

I hear you are good at making snap decisions.

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

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.

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

Higher Instincts/Middling Instincts/Baser Instincts.