Starting Management Training Mugs

"Everybody, this is Scott...my management trainee."

"I’ve combined all your outstanding debt into what we here in the banking business like to call a honkin’ big loan."

'I'll be late for dinner, dear. I'm up to my neck in paperwork.'

"I'm sorry, but we're looking for someone who's more likely to be followed than following."

'Believe me, I know transformation isn't easy. I pulled a muscle once.'

'Well, I must say I never thought team-building exercises could be such fun.'

'At Tesmer holdings, we don't break the rules! We change them!'

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

'You'll find there's no middle ground with Kirk Knoland.'

"You've all been working very hard lately, and you deserve some time off. I'm giving you all a two-day membership to time-off.com."

"My boss says I intimidate people. . . so I stared at him until he apologized."

"I'm away from my desk right now..."

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

"I don't want to insult your intelligence - I imagine that happens enough as it is."

The little engine that delegated

'Since we downsized the board of directors profits are up 300 percent.'

'I always feel at the end of the day I could've taken credit for more.'

"Well, so far I'm managing to stay above the fray."

"The boss is the fatherly type. He never fires anybody."

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

'You've probably heard of me. I'm an author, consultant and lecturer in the fields of authoring, consulting and lecturing.'

"We won again, and guess what? A Russian oligarch wants to buy us!"

"I'm worried about my leadership ability. None of the board members follow me on Twitter."

'We're presently entangled in a power struggle.'

"You need more info? Listen, son, our ancestors faked it, I fake it, and by gawd, it's time you learned to fake it."

'Great first practice. Tomorrow I'll teach you how to land.'

'If you can control your emotions I will make you a branch manager. Yippee.'

Tragically Roger was to discover that his 'managing aggression' seminar did not work in a wilderness setting.

"How's that pub landlord thing working out?"

'Firing workers is a craft, exploiting and bullying them is an art.'

"Don't get your hopes up, Filby."

'Publish or perish doesn't apply to coaching, Yomp - it's recruit, recruit, win, win, win!'

'Taking the anger management class has made you uncharacteristically nice, sir.'

"Frankly I was expecting something a bit more sophisticated..."

"When the report said that coaches should have some psychological training I think they meant more than having watched all 11 series of Frasier."