Multitalented Maven Mugs

Farmer's Market.

"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.

"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.'

Multi-Tasking

Corporate Team Building. Team. Hey, everybody, I've just been told our CEO fled the country while we've been doing our truth exercises.

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

"Just go with the workflow."

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

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

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

"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..."

Aftermath: Hostile Takeover,

The Working Mum

Human Brain

"She bathes him. She feeds him. She burps him. Mother's a real micromanager."

Man carrying his boss.

"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."

"And here you see where we successfully concluded the merger to everyone's mutual benefit."

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

Laptops

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

"What kind of crazy management scheme is this?"

"Executive shoeshine and bald head buff, sir?"

"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.'

'I'm a wife, a daughter, a working mother...and you're asking me if I can MULTI-TASK???'