One of my favourite Dilbert cartoons is from many years ago. Dilbert’s peering over his cubicle into the next one, asking the occupant: “What are you in for?” Those five words sum up beautifully what has evolved–devolved?–over the past many decades in cubicle land. Your faithful corr...
Using graphical summaries, cartoons, and humor, we make ideas “stickier” in our minds. Badges, points, ranks and optional leaderboards help provide the motivation and nudges needed to keep you engaged. Work smarter, not harder. Engage the visual, right-side of your brain as well as the li...
Using graphical summaries, cartoons, and humor, we make ideas “stickier” in our minds. Badges, points, ranks and optional leaderboards help provide the motivation and nudges needed to keep you engaged. Work smarter, not harder. Engage the visual, right-side of your brain as well as the li...
Humor as a Management Tool: Use in Formal Game Presentations Humor has raised its merry head in simulation game play. During end-of-game formal presentations of strategies and results, game teams entertain as well as analyze by means of jokes and overhead projector cartoons. The evidence of ma...
It then traces these metonymies in historical and recent political cartoons on leadership in contexts of colonization, nation building, and revolution. The work also delineates patterns in composite metonymy and its combination with metaphor. Metonymy has paradoxical effects on the discursive construction...
and requests for help.”“As ‘soft’ as all of this might sound, it is only when team members are truly comfortable being exposed to one another that they begin to act without concern for protecting themselves. As a result, they can focus their energy and attention completely on the job...