Planner Fanatic Gifts

'How do you expect me to keep track of the date when they change it every day?'

"We only got six days of funding."

"For heaven's sake, Ogden, it's vacation time! Must you make your little lists even on vacation time?"

"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."

When Engineers Crack.

'We took the old plan, folded in half, and now it's the new plan.'

"I think you might need to start again."

Innovation & Calculation

Deadline

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

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

"Compare Calculate Contrast Before you make a move"

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

Five Ideas For Success: Always finish what you. . .

'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.'

'We had no contingency plan for things going right.'

"We must kill this initiative, so let's mainstream it."

Engineer on the move.

"Whether we refer to them as lakes or ponds, it's mere semantics."

"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."

"That's it - I've had it up to here with measurement devices."

"I suppose that's what happens when 'putting customers first' comes second!"

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

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

Summertime... When you go zero to 'booked up' in 3.5 seconds

Child has practiced building sand castles in snow.

Father Time Management

"In normal circumstances a full state pension would be an automatic..."

Pre-nuptual Nativity

Bad Office Planning

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

"We're still trying to sort out the details."

Clear construction agreements are important.

"I thought an illogical framework would work better."

"We thought we could put in the details later."