Strategy Session Survivor Gifts

'Jones, somewhere out there, we've lost our common sense. I want you to go and bring it back.'

"Looks like we found the issue."

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

A fight in the Boardroom.

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

'Don't think of it as being a yes man, think of it as being an employed man.'

'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?"

A desert island with a knotted palm tree

"What do you want to talk about first...the kleptomania or the hoarding?"

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

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

"Peterson proposes we move out of the mountains."

65 Million Years Ago

Target your customer.

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

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

'What kind of a mission statement is that?'

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

Maybe it's now time to review our customer care strategy!"

Business Target

"It's not bulls**t if we call it strategy."

Rita's PhD defense wasn't going well."

"We're all in the same boat, except it's more like a life raft than an actual boat."

Game changing

"Sorry, I'm preaching again. Why don't we pause for a moment while I pass around the collection plate."

'Don't look now, but I think we're being followed.'

'We're well positioned, but we lack leadership.'

"When it comes to online marketing, I'm puzzled."

Mountain Tops Incorporated

'And this will be our strategic plan for the coming year.'

'Good news from the field, sire! Attila did not like the referee's call, so he's folding up his tents, taking his ball and going home!'

'You should agree with me, but not all the time, Try mixing it up a little,'

'I have no one to blame but myself, for now.'

'I was thinking-what if the tide's OUT?'