Strategic Communicator Gifts

'I'm very impressed with how you effectively dodged every one of my questions.'

"Petersen doesn't say much, but when he does speak people listen!"

"And then, there was nothing more to say."

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

"Can I borrow the car keys?"

"Then we have an unspoken agreement?"

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

'Fred, I want you to sanitize this, punch it up, dumb it down, leak it to the media and then be fully prepared to deny it!'

"Any questions?"

Ninedency: A budding tendency

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

"A one-word email reply... classic power move."

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Benedict & Associates: Communication Strategies, Lobbying. . .

"Repeat after me: We are delivering the proactive core value promises and rolling out our real time best practice action plan going forward ..."

"I was going to have my people call his people, but I’m pretty sure his people have Caller I.D."

'Could we finish these negotiations via e-mail? That will allow me to think before I respond to your proposals.'

Wordplay: Export.

"My resume is concise, succinct and eloquently worded. I only hope they know what I'm talking about."

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'You're good with people. Just tell him to go fuck himself.'

"Hire me and I'll bring in orders. Big orders. You're gonna need a bigger door."

'I sort of thought your presentation was going to be in powerpoint.'

"Using worst case scenario as a baseline, I consider this data quite encouraging."

'Boss, it seems like a friendly text, but you've got to learn to read between the emoticons.'

'Who wants the talking stick?'

"To be clear you are willing to labor under misconceptions?"

'The Human Right Act bans ANY cruel or unusual treatment...we may need to rewrite our ENTIRE customer care policy!'

'I can beat my own drum but it'll be counting on your to toot my horn.'

'That's the new guy. He writes our 'shuck-and-jive' press releases.'

"What other skills do you obtain other than being able to answer interview questions?"

"Despite years of management training john still found it difficult to give negative feedback."

Teacher getting the childrens attention by pretending to be on television.