Productivity Mentor Mugs

Office Safety - Slip/Trip Hazards.

"Give a sh*t" "Don't give a sh*t"

"I spent all day learning productivity hacks"

"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."

'No, I'm not stranded. This is the only place I could find that has no distractions.'

Time Is Money

Motivation to work

"My preferred pronoun is they."

'I see you're still trying to get the staff enthused over the weekly meetings.' (Meeting offers free coffee, free snacks, eye-popping charts, exciting videos and free idea pads).

"Meanwhile, obsessing about productivity is way up."

'We need to have a shake-up!'

"There appears to be a direct correlation between fewer meetings and higher productivity."

"Has anyone else noticed that the efficiency experts seem a little robotic?"

"You need to stand up for yourself, or at least sit up straight."

Responsibility and duties

'This software package can cut your workload in half. Do you want to purchase two copies?'

"You should be able to get through your emails during the working day then you could use the rest of your life to do some of the work."

"Oh, I can be dependable, and for another £200 a week, I can be productive too."

"Leadership is about more than delegating all of your work."

Strategic Planning Magnetic Kit showing words such as 'increase,' 'global,' 'leading,' and 'profitable'

"Our open-space office really stimulates information sharing when everyone removes their noise-cancelling headphones."

Workaholics Anonymous meeting: 'No one showed up. Everyone is working.'

'Im so overloaded with emails, just one monitor wasn't enough to handle them all.'

"Remember, Mort: Courage isn't the absence of fear. Courage is remaining media-savvy in the face of fear!"

"I think you're becoming a workaholic."

Working Environment

Productivity as a goal

'He's still able to do the work of three committees.'

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

'Here, here and here the copier was jammed...'

"Here comes our first V.P., Mrs. Byers, now. Mrs. Byers is results-oriented."

'This either means 'get busy', or I'm damned.'

"I know eight hours sleep a day is normal... but not at work!"