Strategy Masterminds Mugs

Isn't 'To rule the world' a little too grand in scale?

The Businessmen Have to Make Decisions from Many Options

'And I'm happy to say, that since the merger...'

"That's Paul, he's our head of partnerships..."

"My hackers just collapsed your country's economy."

'I was in a camouflage unit, so this one is for Hide and Seek.'

"We structured the deal so it won't make any sense to you."

"I hope I get rock and you get scissors, or I get scissors and you get paper, or I get paper and you get rock."

"I think you might need to start again."

To attract a bigger audience, the world chess federation allow fans to distract an opponent when it's his move.

'He's been hiding out here for 20 years. Apparently, his buddies forgot to tell him the paintball tournament was over.'

Notoriously losing pieces, the Varns could only have family game night by putting together whatever they could find. 'Checkmate!' 'You sank my Battleship!' 'You didn't say 'UNO'!

Man mourns the loss of his king after being checkmated.

"The team needs LEADERSHIP, anyone have a view on that?"

What can I play?

"Not the most impressive strategic plan I've ever seen."

'With 5% spent on talent, 5% on production, and 90% on marketing...I smell WINNER!'

Carlo Ancelotti

"This is super. I asked for super-duper."

'Okay, here's the plan...'

I don't like the looks of this.

The imagery attacks the compalcency of the casual web surfer and uses a visual cacophony of discordant images to excite and enthusethe casual visitor...

"A Leading cosmetics company believes our drilling mud would ake an excellent skincare product."

"O.K., Saddam, we want a full and accurate accounting of what you've got - or else?"

Jurgen Klopp Caricature

"We're targeting a specific demographic: the utterly clueless."

"To be honest, it's the same stuff just in different bottles!"

'And finally, there's option three, a classic business model that would reduce our marketing, supply-chain and production expenses by 85 percent!' '

'I see you plan to grow by 50 a year!'

Management by committee: 'The buck stops here, here, here, here,,,'

Alex Ferguson

"I think I'd be better off trying to figure this out the game on my own."

Businessman's schedule full of confrontations.

What are they complaining about...the work is challenging,interesting, demanding...AND we let them do it for 80 hours a week.

Manager. Managing a political campaign and a baseball team are alike in many ways. A campaign is launched with a "first pitch," when a candidate gives a speech selling himself or herself. I change pitchers based on the game situation. In politics and baseball, sometimes it's best to come from the right side and sometimes it's best to come from the left side. We study our competitors' weaknesses and exploit those. In politics we call that "opposition research." And I don't worry about the