OK, so for the record, after taking a bow for the very nice comments a couple of people made about my role in the Eureka community initiative at Schlumberger, I need to say that the bosses were not infuriated by the Dilbert cartoon. When I showed the draft presentation to some people, they were concerned that it might be seen in a negative light. Of course, this just encouraged me to persist (you might as well have waved a red flag in front of a bull to tell it to stop). But I never, ever got any flak for using that drawing to symbolize the knowledge workers and their bosses.
In addition, the cartoon had Alice in it, and the lady who succeeded Henry Edmundson at the head of the community effort, Susan Rosenbaum, has an uncanny resemblance to Alice on a humid day (she has long curly hair). This part usually got the most laughs, primarily from her.
Susan certainly deserves a lot of the credit for the communities, which she took over from Henry. My co-leaders over the years added a lot of new ideas and are doing great (I stepped down last year, but I still try to help them). And the management of Schlumberger has been 150% supportive.
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OK, so for the record, after taking a bow for the very nice comments a couple of people made about my role in the Eureka community initiative at Schlumberger, I need to say that the bosses were not infuriated by the Dilbert cartoon. When I showed the draft presentation to some people, they were concerned that it might be seen in a negative light. Of course, this just encouraged me to persist (you might as well have waved a red flag in front of a bull to tell it to stop). But I never, ever got any flak for using that drawing to symbolize the knowledge workers and their bosses.
In addition, the cartoon had Alice in it, and the lady who succeeded Henry Edmundson at the head of the community effort, Susan Rosenbaum, has an uncanny resemblance to Alice on a humid day (she has long curly hair). This part usually got the most laughs, primarily from her.
Susan certainly deserves a lot of the credit for the communities, which she took over from Henry. My co-leaders over the years added a lot of new ideas and are doing great (I stepped down last year, but I still try to help them). And the management of Schlumberger has been 150% supportive.