Job Search Mastermind Mugs

"My last interview seemed to take on some negative energy after I handcuffed myself to a chair and refused to leave without a job offer."

The Businessmen Have to Make Decisions from Many Options

"The data looks good, sir, but the vibes are mucho heavioso."

'And I'm happy to say, that since the merger...'

"That's Paul, he's our head of partnerships..."

"I believe we have a quorum for the meeting."

"The team needs LEADERSHIP, anyone have a view on that?"

What can I play?

"We're looking for the kind of bad taste that will grab - but not appall."

"Not the most impressive strategic plan I've ever seen."

'With 5% spent on talent, 5% on production, and 90% on marketing...I smell WINNER!'

Carlo Ancelotti

"This is super. I asked for super-duper."

'Our problem is, we do more blamestorming than brainstorming.'

I'm buying a house. You're broke. So? the interest rate plans are amazing. The banks are giving money away. Besides, the housing market is going nuts. If I buy today, I can sell next year for a huge profit. I suddenly feel faint. You look ill, Mr. Powell.

"Today's top priority is prioritizing our priorities."

'It's the perfect time to move up the evolutionary ladder! The climate is stable, we have no natural predators, and interest rates may never be this low again!'

'Why yes, the resume is a very important basis for who we hire.'

Jurgen Klopp Caricature

"A Leading cosmetics company believes our drilling mud would ake an excellent skincare product."

The imagery attacks the compalcency of the casual web surfer and uses a visual cacophony of discordant images to excite and enthusethe casual visitor...

I don't like the looks of this.

"To be honest, it's the same stuff just in different bottles!"

"We're targeting a specific demographic: the utterly clueless."

'And finally, there's option three, a classic business model that would reduce our marketing, supply-chain and production expenses by 85 percent!' '

Management by committee: 'The buck stops here, here, here, here,,,'

Alex Ferguson

"The meeting's over but it's so close to the end of the day. Let's just use our collective inertia and run out the clock."

What are they complaining about...the work is challenging,interesting, demanding...AND we let them do it for 80 hours a week.

"Before I give you my resume, I'd like to know how thorough you fact check."

Manager. Managing a political campaign and a baseball team are alike in many ways. A campaign is launched with a "first pitch," when a candidate gives a speech selling himself or herself. I change pitchers based on the game situation. In politics and baseball, sometimes it's best to come from the right side and sometimes it's best to come from the left side. We study our competitors' weaknesses and exploit those. In politics we call that "opposition research." And I don't worry about the

Digital Marketing

'What are frills and luxuries, that you've earmarked as needs, doing on your application?'

'No wonder the company is in trouble!'

"Well, sure, it LOOKS like a straightforward plea to buy our product...but for safety we better run it by the legal department