Leadership Tactician Gifts

'That's right, I'm offering you faint praise. I'm feeling magnanimous today.'

Carrot VS Stick

"It's Swamp & Swallow - they're making an offer we can't refuse!"

“Sweet mother of Marmaduke... no!”

"That's Hicks from the corporate office. He's adorable, but trust me—when it comes to acquisitions, he's an animal!"

Takeovers.

"Memo to self - personalise new work-station."

"Well I didn't see the incident myself.."

'Competition is good...unless it's too good.'

'So far, sir, we've rejected plans A,B, C, D, E, F, and right now we're evaluating'G'.'

'Jones, somewhere out there, we've lost our common sense. I want you to go and bring it back.'

'Larry, you have everything it takes to go far in this company, but a word of advice: lose the laugh.'

"I was able to negotiate it from a hostile takeover to an uneasy alliance."

'This is Osgood, our most essential man -- he thinks up new ways to limit warranties!'

"Hi, I'm Cindy, the company's most toxic employee!"

'Remember, Henderson - Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and you've sacrificed your leverage.'

"I advise a slow, steady stream of lawsuits to weaken your enemies resistance. We call it time release litigation."

"You can't expect to get anywhere in business without making an enemy or two, Filmeyer."

Human males marking territory.

"It's a dog-eat-dog economy. And I'm the Doberman."

ISIS needle in a haystack.

'Boy, look at his personal space!'

"Remember, negotiating is like buying fruit. You don't know what you'll get until you squeeze 'em a bit."

"Clearly, this pair were up to something. . ."

'Thank you colonel we'll keep your strategy in mind.'

'Oi, do you mind, trying to speak to my colleague - two self service tills having a chat together.'

"The answer isn't more troops—what you need is an antibiotic."

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

"I know I told you to fool him into thinking you've got nothing left, but now you've got me convinced."

"Sorry, Man! I had no idea Alexa would be here!"

So what happens when you told Armstrong you wouldn't recite that Sinclair Broadcasting script? Oh, nothing. Sinclair sued me for everything I own, that's all. But the joke's on them: I've set up different LLC's for every aspect of my life. So all they could get were the assets of the LLC that they paid. This opens up a whole world of possibilities. I knew forming Rudy-has-next-to-nada LLC was a good idea. I am going to miss my ten cents and my broken wiffle ball, though.

"Calm down, I'm just using the rules of modern competition."

"Call it wishful thinking, but I don't think this peace will last. . . ."

Thanks to compromise they were moving closer.

"We're fighting them in zone A, they're our allies in zone B, and we don't know what to do in zone C."