Conflicting Corporate Metrics Cartoon: When Graphs Don’t Get Along

The Scenario: In this conflicting corporate metrics cartoon, we witness the classic boardroom paradox.

A manager presents two charts that are moving in opposite directions—usually the "hard" numbers like revenue are diving while the "soft" metrics like employee engagement are magically climbing.

It captures the moment where data is used not for insight, but for convenient storytelling to distract from reality.

The Observation: This piece of workplace satire targets the "cherry-picking" nature of data-driven leadership.

It critiques a culture where conflicting corporate metrics are massaged until they fit a specific narrative. Through this comic, Kaapi with Ravi highlights the comical irony of graphs that seem "allergic" to one another, proving that in the modern office, optics often rise much faster than actual outcomes.

In some meetings, if the facts don't fit the theory, the facts are usually the first thing to be replaced by a more positive graph.

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• Series: Leadership Cartoons

  
  

• Theme: Boss Cartoons