Problem Analysis Gifts

'Ladies and gentlemen, today we're going to get down to nuts and bolts.'

"Looks like we found the issue."

'The wheel was great, but what have you done for me lately?'

'If I had to use one word to describe our strategy.'

"I'm going to bombard you with graphs until you agree with me."

The Department of Really Stupid Ideas: 'Most people think they just appear out of thin air! But the truth is, there's a great deal of very hard work involved!'

"The Net National Product rose slightly last month."

"Forget five-year plans. Let's just figure out how to make it to lunch."

The Businessmen Have to Make Decisions from Many Options

"I was hoping this presentation would be more interesting upside down."

Brian wanted to call the presentation "Synergy". Paula wanted to call it "Cooperation". They could never agree.

'Let's not go by the book.'

'You may now turn over your paper and begin.' - 'Sir!' - 'Yes?' - 'What is it?' - 'I think Train 'A' and Train 'B' might be going to crash!'

"Yeah, but that one's a little bit hard to reach."

boy plugging leak in a barrel with his finger

"Together ideas for couples" "Slap a sandwich together" "Put two and two together" "Pull themselves together" "Rub two sticks together" "Try to hold it together" "String a phrase together"

"Actually, she's just a figurehead boss. Our real CEO is an algorithm floating around somewhere in the cloud!"

"I'd say we were pretty much on target."

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'When I grow up, I want to be a hydraulic engineer...'

'I have a plan 'B' but that's also dependent on a working projector bulb.'

In/Out/These Things Happen.

Fear/Knowledge

'According to our statistics department, 78.93 of the statistics they produce are worthless.'

"Good" "Bad" "Work on it" "Keep working - maybe it's not as bad as you think it is" "Put it to a committee" "Give up" "Make it worse" "Make it better" "Still a bad idea" "Overthink it" "Throw yourself into a pit of wild badgers" "Throw it away" "Call it done" "Sigh."

"Right about here there was a flattening of the curve. . ."

"Again? This is the last time I'm letting you wear the pants with the little zipper."

'I vote we hang the darn thing upside down and go home!'

"They're having a fight over how best to handle client conflict."

"You're going to have to submit to peer review eventually, Bradshaw!"

' A good idea '

"When faced with a tricky ethical issue, I always ask the question, 'What's in it for me?'"

Math Dreams

Light Bulb Moment

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