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5 Cartoons Guaranteed to Make You a Better Manager

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Just because you don't watch "Schoolhouse Rock!" anymore doesn't mean cartoons have nothing left to teach you. Some pioneering groups, both ASAP Science and RSA Animate, have put together some very cool animations/time-lapse drawings that speak to the building blocks of managing people and, most importantly, ourselves. 

Click on the bubbles in the infographic below to learn about:

  • Why words matter
  • The science behind productivity
  • The truth about what motivates us
  • Different types of thinking
  • And the origin of innovation (aka where good ideas come from)

Other good management videos out there? Send them to me at mmicheli@govexec.com

Update: For those of you having trouble seeing the videos embeded in the image above due to agency firewalls, you can find each  video below. 

Infographic made with Easel.ly

Mark Micheli writes Excellence in Government’s Promising Practices blog and serves as the program manager of the Government Business Council. Prior to his current roles, he worked as a management consultant on national security and emergency management issues with the US Treasury Department. He’s worked as a political research analyst, a reporter for the Des Moines Register at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland and is a graduate of the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs. He studied at Drake University where he has degrees in Magazine Journalism, Political Science and History.

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