- They will agree but they won't want you to assume that they'll agree.
- Don't take them for granted.
- The goal is to get them off of your front porch as soon as possible.
- All of that razzmatazz at the beginning: ignore it. The people who wrote it don't know what it means.
- You know the part where they said it's acceptable. I think they left out "not."
- The regulations may say that but I doubt if the courts will agree.
- He didn't give it to us until ten days after the timer started running.
- The auditors are hell-bent to find mistakes so they made mistakes for them to find. Small ones, of course.
- It is so complicated you suspect they don't want it to work. That causes me to question their ethics.
- They shall feel the wrath that the patient man hath.
- It's a Full Employment Bill for lawyers.
- No, if it were written in Japanese it would make more sense.
- I made the document as boring as possible. There are times when no drama is wise.
- They're all speculating on what she wants. Has anyone asked her?
- That was too clever by half.
- Eloquence does not fill an empty suit.
- When she wasn't busy denouncing micromanagement, she was micromanaging.
- Don't ask the staff members for a candid opinion when their boss is in the room.
- I know that was confusing. It's a quaint way of saying no.
- The reason why I could predict events is that I've seen this a few hundred times before.
- I wonder where those great ideas were when we needed them.
- An executive with a great reputation for everything but results.
- They don't want to be bothered with customers.
- The word "urgent" does not seem to be in their vocabulary.
- Once you have pulled the rabbit out of the hat they will want you to disappear.
- He was so nice they thought he was weak. Bad move.
- Don't guess. Go see.
Commentary by management consultant Michael Wade on Leadership, Ethics, Management, and Life
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