Shifting blame

Tell someone you will be available for meetings to set up a project. Then on the morning of the meeting tell them you are out of the office until the day before the deadline. This way you know the project will miss the deadline and you can absolve yourself of responsibility because you were out of the office.

Software Customer

Hire a company to write software for you.  Then don't respond to emails, phone calls, or show up to meetings.  Then when the project runs long proceed to blame them for all the shortcomings.   As long as your position is high enough in your company no one will question that it is the contractor's fault.

Leaning Back

Wear multiple hats (most particularly cowboy hats) stacked on top of each other when flying on an airplane.  Anyone who is on a cross country or overseas flight will not want to sit behind you.  This way you can lean your chair back without getting kicked constantly, prepare for a nice peaceful sleep.

Arriving early

Always tell people it will take you 30 minutes longer to get somewhere than it actually takes. This way you are always early and look punctual, when you do run late you will look perfectly on time.

I don't know if all the airlines flying to st louis do this on purpose, but they are very reliably 30 minutes early.