Strategy Seer Prints

'We don't need helicopter vision, Manfred. We need a helicopter.'

"Looks like we found the issue."

"Forget five-year plans. Let's just figure out how to make it to lunch."

The Businessmen Have to Make Decisions from Many Options

'Which 'win' is ours? Because the one on the left looks bigger.'

A fight in the Boardroom.

"'Quid pro quo' is a no-no, Bradbury. Around here we say 'reciprocal altruism'."

"Gentlemen, I'm pleased to say the firm is perfectly positioned to avoid chapter eleven and still be in existence this time next year."

How leaders fail

'Ah, Galagher, we made good use of your proposal.'

"...but the big question is, does the competition know that we don't know what we don't know?"

'Any minute now I'll be getting a headache.'

'I had a thought. Let's scrap everything and start a new fiscal year right now.'

After a day long meeting, the decision, as usual, is made in the hallway.

Bullseye!

"Based on the feedback from advisers whom I haven't beheaded, all of my ideas are great."

'I went into that meeting with a hidden agenda and then forgot where I put it.'

'We've just become the biggest corporation in America.. let's celebrate today and begin downsizing tomorrow.'

Our Two Parties, Explained

"Peterson proposes we move out of the mountains."

'Our problem is how to lower quality while raising prices...'

'Now I know why the strategy guide warned against entering the 5th stage. Awesome!'

'And finally, there is the universal solution.'

Target your customer.

Team Experiences Cabinet: Productivity, Fun, Goal Setting!

"Now I'll demonstrate how, with a minimum of capital investment, you can make a mountain out of a molehill!"

"Tell her she's dead. I don't want to talk about the relationship."

'What are we, wimps? Are we gonna let a bunch of rabbits push us all over the field? Come on, big guys.'

'No, you can't use your last wish, to wish for another three wishes!'

"Maybe we should have another look at the 'business as usual' idea."

'Stay with me now, people, because in Step C, things get a bit delicate.'

'What kind of a mission statement is that?'

'We took the old plan, folded in half, and now it's the new plan.'

"At least we are consistently inconsistent."

"Help! I'm surrounded by idiots."