Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the July-August 2014 Issue

June 28, 2014 Leave a comment

Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the July-August 2014 Issue

by Josh Olejarz  |   9:00 AM June 23, 2014

Enjoy these cartoons from the July–August issue of HBR, and test your management wit in theTWO HBR Cartoon Caption Contests we’re running this month. The first contest, for our September issue, is at the bottom of this post, and the second contest, for our October issue, can be found here. If we choose your caption as the winner, you will be featured in an upcoming magazine issue and win a free Harvard Business Review Press book.

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Bob Eckstein

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“Good. Now we’ll take things up a notch and have you check your work e-mails…”

Paula Pratt

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“It works, but is it scalable?”

Kaamran Hafeez

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“Admittedly, it’s a niche market.”

Crowden Satz

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“We’ve updated the company manual.”

Bob Vojtko

And congratulations to our July–August caption contest winner, Lance Kelly of Manchester, Connecticut. Here’s his winning caption:

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“I’m loving this blue ocean strategy.”

Cartoonist: Ken Krimstein

 

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