{"id":652937,"date":"2013-04-17T11:45:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=4cc5f01dd71717d81d934db565616fb0"},"modified":"2013-04-17T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:54:53","slug":"strategic-humor-cartoons-from-the-may-2013-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652937","title":{"rendered":"Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the May 2013 Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy these cartoons from the May issue of HBR, and test your management wit in the <strong>HBR Cartoon Caption Contest at the bottom of this post<\/strong>. If we choose your caption as the winner, you will be featured in next month&#8217;s magazine and win a free Harvard Business Review Press book.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/SH_1%20May13%20PC%20Vey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PC Vey Cartoon\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/assets_c\/2013\/04\/SH_1%20May13%20PC%20Vey-thumb-580x418-3759.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t think of it as your being fired. Think of it as our failure to retain talent.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>PC Vey<\/em><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Untitled2_grayscale.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/Untitled2_grayscale.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/SH_2%20May13%20Teresa%20Burns%20Parkhurst.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Teresa Burns Parkhurst Cartoon\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/assets_c\/2013\/04\/SH_2%20May13%20Teresa%20Burns%20Parkhurst-thumb-580x417-3761.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Teresa Burns Parkhurst<\/em> <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Untitled2_grayscale.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/Untitled2_grayscale.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/SH_3%20May13%20Paul%20Kales.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paul Kales cartoon\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/assets_c\/2013\/04\/SH_3%20May13%20Paul%20Kales-thumb-580x558-3763.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Now can you explain that with a parable?&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Paul Kales<\/em><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Untitled2_grayscale.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/Untitled2_grayscale.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/SH_4%20May13%20Bob%20Eckstein.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bob Eckstein Cartoon\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/assets_c\/2013\/04\/SH_4%20May13%20Bob%20Eckstein-thumb-580x330-3765.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;And that, in a nutshell, is why I&#8217;m on the penny.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Bob Eckstein<\/em><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Untitled2_grayscale.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/Untitled2_grayscale.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And congratulations to our April caption contest winner, <strong>Connor Barclay<\/strong> of Claremont, California. Here&#8217;s his winning caption:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/SH_5%20May13%20Paul%20Kales.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paul Kales cartoon (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/assets_c\/2013\/04\/SH_5%20May13%20Paul%20Kales-thumb-580x545-3767.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Next time you cry wolf, there better be an actual problem.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Cartoonist: Paul Kales<\/em><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Untitled2_grayscale.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/Untitled2_grayscale.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>NEW CAPTION CONTEST<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Enter your own caption for this cartoon in the comments field below &#8212; you could be featured in next month&#8217;s magazine and win a free book.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/SH_6%20May13%20Bob%20Eckstein.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bob Eckstein cartoon (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/assets_c\/2013\/04\/SH_6%20May13%20Bob%20Eckstein-thumb-580x441-3769.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">Cartoonist: Bob Eckstein<\/div>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.harvardbusiness.org\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?a=CfWfJvAOag8:r70x71zzSVs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.harvardbusiness.org\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?a=CfWfJvAOag8:r70x71zzSVs:bcOpcFrp8Mo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/harvardbusiness\/~4\/CfWfJvAOag8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy these cartoons from the May issue of HBR, and test your management wit in the HBR Cartoon Caption Contest at the bottom of this post. If we choose your caption as the winner, you will be featured in next month&#8217;s magazine and win a free Harvard Business Review Press book. &#8220;Don&#8217;t think of it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8064,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8064"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}