18 Feb 2008 04:53:04 | Avinoam Amizan
With the advancement of computer simulators, anybody can repeat
all the business routines before he goes to the field, and have
the opportunity of relaxing from the tedious work with numbers.
The businessman can concentrate more on the human factors: The
Customer Service, the relationships among fellow workers, and
self care. The occupation with Human factors is obligation to
deal with emotions. Emotions volumes are not measurable
accurately, contrary to cognitive or physical volumes. We can
measure I.Q., or weight lifting, but not the intensity of love
or hate. Questionnaires about satisfaction from a product or a
boss give very limited answers. The reason we cannot measure
emotions is that they expand all the time. This is their main
attribute. It gives them their most unique quality: The ability
to identify with the other and be empathic. We can memorize
cognitive or physical practices, but with emotions we are left
bare like children in a barren field. This leaves the
businessman exposed to mistakes of emotional intelligence, and
the computers cannot help him.
There is nothing better then the sense of humor, the best
therapy for the soul, for illuminating the human factor. The
definition of humor is: Emotions made precise. It derives
directly from an overloaded mind, which seeks to facilitate the
feelings he faces with others. Every accurate expression of
emotion is followed by it, as part of a relief. Every business
deal is a transaction of emotions. These are accurate emotions,
purified through the long bargaining process. Between the
negotiating sides, after a deal closing, comes immediately a
mutual sense of emotional relief. While it fade away down, It
create a by product, in the form of lightness of the spirit, a
humor.
The precision of humor observations makes them suitable for the
businessmen training. There is a use for humor in all the
aspects of human relations at work, but it is limited, in scale
and methods. There are humor workshops for businessmen, but they
are relatively rare, in contrast to the amount of time dedicated
for self improvement. Starting at the morning meetings, through
the motivation papers, and finally with the private learning,
the average businessman provide himself constantly with
emotional intelligence advice. Compare the percentage of humor
in it to humor in ordinary life, and you will find that while
daily life is a continuous effort for laugher, business life is
a cooperated effort for making life more serious and heavier.
The businessman needs a steady supply of concrete, healthy
humor. Otherwise he may turn into acidly cynic person.
One medium of humor, the Cartoon, is more suitable then others
for the Businessman. The Visual aspect of the cartoon makes it
easy to grasp the content. It affords a visual relaxation in the
visually intensive world of business. Humor in business is not
as simple as it looks like. It demands professionalism both in
humor and business. It has to be precise. Otherwise there is a
danger of getting out of focus. Laser precision is part of any
humor. If the target is missed, the damage is big.
Two major daily cartoon series deals directly with the business
world. One is Dilbert, by Scott Adams. You can find it at the
link: http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/index.html
Another one is the Daily Cartoon by Randy Glasbergen. You can
find it at the link:
http://pub49.bravenet.com/cartoon/show.php?usernum=4194105148
Let us compare between the two cartoon series.
Dilbert has not a very inspiring affect. The characters are
clumsy. They create clumsier situations. It is the result of
incriminating surface behavior. It is very hard to understand
them. We laugh at them, without very much intellectual
gratification. The Daily Cartoon by Randy Glasbergen is much
more sophisticated. A delicate situation, the result of internal
acting forces, is in the center, and not a character. The
situation is always a very sharp event of people behavior,
mostly regarding money. The elusive world of money making
motives finds here its accurate, funny representation. The
characters serve just as a mean for clarification. The subject
is not a certain character with unique attributes, but a
situation with a strong common background, that anyone can
encounter.
This makes the Daily Cartoon by Randy Glasbergen a favorable
choice for the business world. Imagine if we could apply it on a
daily practical basis. We would laugh all the way to the bank.
To do so, we need a closer focus on business themes. Anybody can
identify and act properly, when facing a situation that was
represented in a cartoon with dynamic replacing of characters.
The need is for sophisticated cartoons is huge. It is a human
problems solving technique. Whenever I open the
http://pub49.bravenet.com/cartoon/show.php?usernum=4194105148
website, I find new concrete inspirations regarding business
activities, and, as a bonus, guides for other aspects of life
like health, family and self improvement. The Daily Cartoon by
Randy Glasbergen combines intensity with sophistication. A new
cartoon is published once a day, and it is backed up by a huge
archive. I suggest The Daily Cartoon as the best way for
introducing emotional intelligence to the business world. The
subjects of the cartoons deals directly with the modern business
arena of: computers and Internet work, management and workers,
Decision making, work morality, and so on. It covers in
exactingness almost any field, with a very positive affect.
The next step is to take The Daily Cartoons to a higher level:
increase the circulation, add more sub topics from the business
world, and find a way of implementing them to the infrastructure
of the daily business work, for a better world.
About Author :
Avinoam Amizan is the owner and the webmaster of:
http://pub49.bravenet.com/cartoon/show.php?usernum=4194105148 He
has diplomas in teaching and marketing from various institutes
in Israel.