Problem-solving Pro Mugs

Brainstorm in progress.

'Come on, Fowler, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure this out!'

"Managing a major project in these challenging times requires IMAGINATION, the FIRST thing I'd like you to imagine is that you have a team to help you."

'Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.'

"If you don't do something about that leaking tap soon I'm going to get someone in"

Pre-occupied with a messy tangle...San noticed another more pressing problem!

"Looks like the termite man's here."

"Oh, come on. That's your answer to everything!"

'We have to shorten all depot platforms, we misconvernted inches into centimeters and designed the train too wide.'

"Did you double-check your math homework?"

"Never marry an engineer."

"At what point does this become our problem?"

'The trouble with a merger like this is that our people who know about computers don't know a thing about bubble gum, the people who know about bubble gum don't know a thing about about hats, the people who know hats...'

'Don't tell me...Team A has the educated guess and Team B the uneducated guess.'

"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."

Muggers.

"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

"I think it hates me!"

"We ran out of the little umbrellas."

The Businessmen Have to Make Decisions from Many Options

boy plugging leak in a barrel with his finger

"Someday she'll solve the world's problems."

"We can waste time and look for a solution or...just find a scapegoat?"

'I solved the problem of dead zones on my cell phone with a personal satellite,'

'Due to cutbacks, he lost his company vehicle, so he has to improvise.'

"Is this a 'GOTCHA' question?"

'I solve so many work problems at home.'

"Looks like our days at the think tank are numbered."

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

"OK team, we need innovative solutions and we need 'em fast!"

'This is Martins, the office I was telling you about. She's got a real knack for texting people down from window ledges!'

'So far, sir, we've rejected plans A,B, C, D, E, F, and right now we're evaluating'G'.'

"Try unplugging it and throwing it out the window."

Early Tech Support

"You bring up an important concern, but I'm looking for a problem that better fits my preconceived solution."