Pathway Perfectionist Gifts

'Truthfully, I never wanted the world to beat a path to my door.'

Worry tank

"Gals, you know I hate being the center of attention, so for the next 45 minutes I am going to monologue about all the minute details of my wedding planning."

Some cars need a backseat steering wheel.

"I think you might need to start again."

"I think we should try something a little simpler."

"Hmmm, this might just be not funny enough for The New Yorker."

"We find it as long as you manage the inputs, the outputs will look after themselves."

"We're developing a plan to fix this."

"We only got up to three 'whys' and a 'what the hell'."

'The project is a little behind schedule. It was proactive, now it's retroactive.'

'Then it's settled. We'll make 7 million with blue handles, 5 million with red handles, 4 million with purple handles and 2 million with green handles.'

Three work boxes: 'IN...LIMBO...OUT': 'I think I've found your bottleneck.'

"I've heard of being organized, but isn't this a little obsessive compulsive?"

'It feels like I'm very much in a good place these days. That is, aside from the grammar.'

'We're almost 1/8th of the way there.'

Perfection

Lessons from the Blakely Art School (Now Defunct)

"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."

"Or should it be scrum or kanban???"

'Daft title. How could you have 'backward' planning?'

'Regarding our deadline - have we moved to long-range planning or still stuck in short-term excuses?'

Christmas Present Wrapping Service.

'I'm a narcissist? - Are you saying I'm not perfect?'

"I propose we go with the second option."

Paving over the window-box

"You're welcome."

'You should have ordered one. This is the only one left in the shop!'

Santa's Out Tray.

"Being happy with one's work is the kiss of death."

"This says you should expect to spend six months and at least $800 building the perfect lowrider bike."

We thought we'd put in the detail later.

Kate had originally been very enthusiastic to prepare the annual global audit plan.

Desk trays - 'Do it' and 'Do it right this time'.

Office of Strategic Scenarios: 'Best case...Worst case.'