{"id":662025,"date":"2013-08-07T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=689540ef7fb6f13e56fd72deca2d7095"},"modified":"2013-08-06T14:56:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T18:56:20","slug":"strategic-humor-cartoons-from-the-september-2013-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/662025","title":{"rendered":"Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the September 2013 Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy these cartoons from the September 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<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PC Vey 1\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/1%20Sep13%20PC%20Vey%20%28web%29.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Ann, you can see by the number of books behind me that I know what I&#8217;m talking about.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">P.C. Vey<\/div>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<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>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aaron Bacall\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/2%20Sep13%20Aaron%20Bacall%20%28web%29.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><br \/>\n<em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">Aaron Bacall<\/div>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<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>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Crowden Satz\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/3%20Sep13%20Crowden%20Satz%20%28web%29.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Although our quarterly earnings dropped by twenty five percent, I feel compelled to point out that our Facebook likes have doubled.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">Crowden Satz<\/div>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<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>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PC Vey\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/4%20Sep13%20PC%20Vey%20%28web%29.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;The kazoo isn&#8217;t the only instrument I play.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">P.C. Vey<\/div>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<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>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Teresa Burns Parkhurst\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/5%20Sep13%20Teresa%20Burns%20Parkhurst%20%28web%29.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Smithers, your input is vital here &#8212; it&#8217;s what we make fun of.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">Teresa Burns Parkhurst<\/div>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<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>\nAnd congratulations to our July-August caption contest winner, <strong>Gretchen Newby of Chevy Chase, Maryland<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s her winning caption:<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Susan Camilleri Konar\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/6%20Sep13%20Susan%20Camilleri%20Konar%20%28web%29.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Owing to recent cutbacks, I can offer you only 2 1\/3 wishes.&#8221;  <\/div>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">Cartoonist: Susan Camilleri Konar<\/div>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<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>\n<strong>NEW CAPTION CONTEST<\/strong><br \/>\nEnter 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. To be considered for the prize, please submit your caption by <strong>Monday, August 12, 2013<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paula Pratt\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbr\/hbreditors\/7%20Sept13%20Paula%20Pratt%20%28web%29.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Cartoonist: Paula Pratt<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.harvardbusiness.org\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?a=5Irbb32f4Cc:NLZDqEnhuFE: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=5Irbb32f4Cc:NLZDqEnhuFE: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\/5Irbb32f4Cc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy these cartoons from the September 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;Ann, you can see [&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-662025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662025","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=662025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}