Strategy Skeptics Mugs

"A few years ago, you management gurus told us to downsize until the halls echoed..."

'If I had to use one word to describe our strategy.'

'Williams, we're not used to receiving such excellent ideas as these, so we'd like to tone them down a bit.'

Valuable business advice from some famous disruptive technologies.

"(Huff) Here's (huff) your (huff) tea (huff... huff... huff... huff...)" "I will almost certainly regret asking you this, but what on earth are you doing, you cretin?" "All (huff) across America, (huff) office workers are ditching (huff) their desks and walking (huff) on treadmills while they work." "Can I get some water?" "Coming right up." "Good thing I wore my tripping shoes."

"We offer a generous flex time policy - you can work your 90 hours per week any way you'd like."

'And from what we've been able to determine, this is the tweak that broke the paradigm's back.'

'I'm part of the decision-making process... I'm the 'No' part.'

"We made a miscalculation, but it's consistent with our over-all strategy."

The suggestion box.

Newfangled contraceptions phobia: 'David, David, we're sinking! Our water bed has sprung a leak!'

"He's not a big fan of micromanaging."

'In an effort to make this sales meeting more pleasant, I have taken the liberty of rotating our sales graph counter clockwise a full ninety degrees,'

"Well you said you wanted a simple, cheap solution!" (IT Solutions).

I have decided that all future board meetings will be held before lunch.

'If congress regulates obscene bonuses, isn't that a violation of the first amendment?'

"Are you sure he tested negative?"

When Downsizing has Gone Too Far...

"This report says a happy workforce is a productive workforce, but I need more proof before I go changing everything around."

'Dear sir, thank you for your idea of a helicopter ejection-seat, but...'

'I have great job security since management doesn't even know I work here.'

Suggestions Box

"I don't care if it does have wifi. . . it's a vegetable peeler!"

"My kid could have done that with AI."

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"Well, by that logic no one would ever shave a clock onto a monkey."

"He's our new trend-spotter?"

'And now, Henderson will introduce his 25-part plan on spontaneity.'

'Haffner, we'll have none of your common sense suggestions!'

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'My work is based on a version of the truth, but I believe the truth to be fluid...'

"OK, I'll be the one to say it. With all due respect, sir, that is one heck of a big 'if!'"

"They hired a cat to distract them from thoughts of change."

"To give it credibility let's tell the boss we stole our business idea from the Japanese instead of thinking it up ourselves!"