Leadership Retreat Pillows

Business Confusion

"Looks like we found the issue."

'If I had to use one word to describe our strategy.'

"This position has become very important to the company."

"Shall we start with an icebreaker?"

The Department of Blind-Side Bias, Knowledge Gaps and Really Great Coffee.

How leaders fail

"The meeting will come to order."

'I've learned a lot about myself at these meetings...like, I can fall asleep with my eyes open!'

'How can we solve this problem by eating?'

'Who folded the annual report into a paper airplane?'

"Be careful what you wish for, Bob, because you just might get it. And if it happens to be what I was wishing for, things could get pretty ugly around here."

A presenter with a very complex chart to explain a business plan - 'And it's as simple as that!'

'He was only reaching for his powerpoint presentation pointer.'

"Always remember...it takes teamwork to get me that promotion!"

"Look at them smiling. They've reached their comfort zone."

'Our problem is how to lower quality while raising prices...'

"And best of all, it comes fully loaded!"

"Work hard, make the sacrifices and in 25 years you could be just like me!"

Steamed Room: "Man, I feel so much lighter."

"He thought this would illustrate the company hierarchy more clearly than the organizational chart."

Teaching a Sunday school class didn't end the way John imagined.

'Yo-you Ma will now raise our spirits and assuage our pain.'

The food chain is like a huge corporation, the only one who really enjoys it, is the guy at the top!

'My team likes to see me spring into action.'