Multidisciplinary Maven Gifts

"Wow, Leonardo! Science, art, inventions. . . Can't you focus?!?"

"Marshall, somewhere out there, just waiting for us, is a loophole in the system."

"I'm sorry, Ms. Cole is busy balancing family and career. Can I take a message and have her call you back?"

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

'Will you pipe down? I'm in a business meeting.'

'She finds it really easy to juggle her kids with her career now she's joined the circus.'

"Does anyone here have a clue what it is we used to get?"

Type A Freshman - changed courses four times, got a job, organized a protest, quit the job, plans to take second semester abroad.

'Kroft, Kroft, Kroft...to thine own demographic be true!'

Multi-Tasking

"I don't have to be a team player, Crawford. I'm the team owner."

'Once, long ago, I thought I was wrong...but it turned out I was mistaken.'

'I think it's time to rein in Henderson.'

'What can I do to create a climate where things get done?'

"Someone, call the office and see if we can get a fresh carrot."

'Sorry to interrupt Dixon - but this is not what I meant when I said this company needed more blue-sky thinking!'

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

"First of all, let me commend everyone on the teamwork displayed on this icebreaker. Secondly, let me apologize for some of the motivational language I used during this session..."

Man carrying his boss.

The Working Mum

Human Brain

"Despite years of management training john still found it difficult to give negative feedback."

The worker/the man who monitors the worker/the man who wrote the draft policy guidelines on how to monitor the man monitoring the worker.

'There's an absence of leadership in this authority,we need to explore the possibility of thinking about setting up a sub-committee to look into it.'

"Tell me more about your imposter syndrome."

Farmer's Market.

Jerk Gene

Eager to get back out but want to limit your exposure? Come to Barry's barbershop, restaurant, gym 'n cinema.

"Executive shoeshine and bald head buff, sir?"

'Office of not much budget, and even less management! Yomp speaking!'

Laptops

"What kind of crazy management scheme is this?"

"May I remind you that my core worth as a human being remains constant, and isn't tied to external validation."

'The only way to survive these days is to diversify.'