Operations Director Gifts

Man about to plug in 'Manufacturing' and 'Distribution' together

'Noticeboard? I forgot it was there to be honest.'

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

'We invest so much money in training staff...it's a mystery to me why businesses would risk losing them.'

"I'm afraid 'It's a surprise', doesn't cut it as a growth strategy."

'Finally! A meeting with one of the bigwigs.'

"Why can't the rest of you be more like Rollins, here? He does his homework!"

"Maybe now, we could look at customer care'?"

Santa sits in front of computers with naughty data and nice data screens.

'We're finding out that those 'wrongs' we made 'right' were actually right after all.'

'We should buy London and ship it to the States!'

"We need to reset our fiscal compass to the changing business horizon."

'The good news is I had a very good year.'

'The toughest things you have to deal with in this job, is feelings and lawyers.'

Gay Times...

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

Signs: Sales, Profit and Media coverage.

The Department of Mystery - No one really knows who we are or what we do, including us.

'Let's hope the new norm means that less really is more.'

'It's my company, I'll decide whether I want to go to the partner's meeting or not.'

You can breed these if the environment is right.

'If I may say so, business is booming.'

'The massive arrests have made the plans for downsizing much easier.'

"Maybe we should have another look at the 'business as usual' idea."

'I'd like to explain my ideas for economy within the company.'

Failure/Due Diligence

'ACE Heating and cooling' 'What's Hot' 'What Not'

Under new blame.

'He doesn't like people walking in - try crawling.'

In and Out Sourced.

Dogs reviewing organizational chart - 'Hunter can eat Spanky or Fido, Spanky can eat Spot or Duke,....' and so on.

'We have what might be a very good idea...'

'It's not surprising. The production department is in Spain, the warehouse is in Korea, the accounting division is in Bolivia, the board of directors is in Canada.'

"Of course we'll give you a choice. Would you prefer to lose your job to outsourcing or to robotic automation?"

"The torch is passed, but since the company is going green, I'm passing a high efficiency, solar powered multi LEC prism spotlight."