Organization Gifts

Obsessive-Compulsive Santa

"Before we begin this family meeting, how about we go around and say our names and a little something about ourselves."

"I have a system."

'Oh, so you do keep track of where you bury things.'

Tax Simplification

"Shall I file it or do you want to find it again?"

"We need a better piling system."

Stuff Happened

'Why is it that nothing ever gets done at these meetings?'

'Hey, everyone! I think I found the bottleneck!'

'I can't remember the title,but it was on a little white piece of paper.'

Desk bins: 'Too much information,' 'Not enough,' 'Just right.'

The devil is in desk bin titled 'The Details'

"One day Son all this will be yours."

Desk bins: 'Action' 'Action-Worthy' 'Action-ific'... 'Actually Done' (Nothing).

Morris was finding it more difficult to adjust to the idea of a 'paperless' office than many.

Shoulda. Woulda. Coulda.

"Yeah, I keep a clean desk. Now all the mess is in the computer!"

Hourglass depicting what time really means.

'911!'

Desk bins contain fires to be put out.

'Now...where did I put that 'How to keep your desk tidy' memo?'

'You don't know what you've got...until you move.'

'I start my day by making a list of everything I need to do . . . and who I can get to do it for me.'

How to Improve Your Memory Seminar.

'This isn't the meeting. This is the pre-premeeting to talk about when to meet and plan the meeting.'

'Where would we be without the right documentation?'

'No more mergers until I get this one cleaned up.'

Desk trays - 'In', 'Out', and 'It depends'.

'In the ineterest of overcoming my reluctance to delegate, starting Monday i want you to do all my worrying for me.'

No Surprises

Important and Urgent Tasks and Not Important and Not Urgent Tasks.

'I purchased this great book on time management, but with my schedule I don't have the time to read it.'

"I'm afriad we had to cancel the 'perfect planning ' seminar. We forgot to book the hotel until it was to late and the speaker we hoped to use died in 1958."

'We've broken your list into eighty-four subgroups. Our work here is done.'