Productivity Poet Gifts

"Yes, I know, Munger. But Wallace Stevens didn't scribble his damned verses on company time."

Things-to-do-today: Daily workboxes piled up on desk.

"It's a new target to target a time to reduce targets so that we'll be less target driven!"

"Do we always have to work through lunch?"

"Why can't I get anything done unless I'm totally stressed out about it?" "Is it possible to be relaxed and still be productive?" "What is wrong with my brain?" "Why don't you work better?"

"I'm waiting for my imagination to run riot."

'It's a fake - but all the hanging around the water cooler is down 57%!'

"Give a man a job, and he'll work all day. Teach a man to delegate, and he'll take the rest of the day off."

"Ok, so you got the worm. What are you going to do with the rest of your day?"

'My multi-tasking turned into faulty-tasking.'

'Insofar as hard figures are still unavailable, our Mr.Rendleman has written a poem which explores the essence of the firm's situation.'

"Some days, no matter how much you procrastinate, work still gets done."

'I'm sorry you had to wait. My Time Management Workshop started late.'

"Miss Jones! Clear my schedule until I get this sorted out!"

'I need a tool to measure productivity.'

"A laptop has been installed in each rest room stall."

'I'm the CEO of a large corporation. Of course my cough is productive. Everything I do is productive.'

"Don't wait up for me. I'm going to have to put in an all-winter."

A tree cries its leaves off like tears

"Now the board will hear from Todd from Accounting with his free verse composition 'My Mistress, Brash and Beguiling – the Third Quarter Numbers.'"

"Slip some performance enhancing drug into the water. We need more production!"

Beesy schedule.

'Remember, I'm doing the best you can.'

'Good work is it's own reward, but delegation is even better.'

"I start every day by making a list of the people I need to ignore."

"So you're a poet? I don't get exposed to much poetry these days, unless you talk about the poetry of price-to-earnings ratios."

Tunnel of Workaholics

'Work production rose significantly once we closed all the curtains in the windows.'

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"That must be the new 'sit-work' desk."

'Technology is wonderful. It makes your people so much easier to use.'

'To save time, I'll deliver the annual report in the form of a Hiaku.'

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

"To keep on top of the work I'm going to have to put in some overtime."