Here are a really neat set of inspirational cartoons that can be used to stimulate engagement and innovation and collaboration.

StumbleUpon sent me this a couple of days ago and I just got the chance to look at it. Pretty amazing, actually. It is a series of inspirational comics illustrating the works of people like Robert Frost,  Neil Degrasse Tyson, Hunter Thompson and others and is REALLY well done.

(But when we moved the site from one place to another, we apparently lost the images and stuff. Sorry.

But instead of just having a bad blog here, I thought you might like to wander over to Zen Pencils which is an interesting cartooning site:

https://vault2211.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/zen-pencils-the-ultimate-source-of-inspirational-comics/

This is an image showing the pride of the team in the implementation of round wheels with the reality that things will be changing in the near future.

MY stuff looks like this, metaphors about people and performance that are wrapped around my theme of Square Wheels® and how things really work in most organizations:

You can find more images and ideas here.

Metaphors and visuals are really great tools to use to involve and engage people in ideas for performance improvement. We’ve been playing with images since 1993:

While the images may change, the key concepts remain the same — continuous continuous improvement

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Dr. Scott Simmerman is a designer of team building games and organization improvement tools.
Managing Partner of Performance Management Company since 1984, he is an experienced presenter and consultant who is trying to retire!! He now lives in Cuenca, Ecuador.

You can reach Scott at scott@squarewheels.com
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