Has Your Business Performed a Hat Trick?


hat trick cartoon

I’m not really much of a sports guy.

I live in the Chicago area and by default root for the Cubs. But if you asked me to name a single player on the team, you’d be waiting a while.

Still, I’ve been trying to do more sports themed cartoons recently and had written down words to play with: Touchdown, home run, slam dunk, etc. And then I remembered something called a hat trick.

I thought it had to do with hockey goals and three of something or other, so it was off to the Internet where Wikipedia told me that:

“A hat-trick or hat trick in sports is the achievement of a positive feat three times or more during a game, or other achievements based on threes.”

Mix it all together in a business setting and you’ve got this cartoon. Game, set, match!

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Mark Anderson Mark Anderson's cartoons appear in publications including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review. His business cartoons are available for licensing at his website, Andertoons.com.

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  1. Haha! I hope that you can really adopt those terms when discussing success in a business meeting. It would make it more interesting. Although I know that it would raise a few eyebrows. It was always a pleasure to see some people react. It keeps things interesting.

  2. I’d find the verbiage circulating in a business meeting (or most other kind of meetings) easier to process/absorb if that kind of language was actually used. Would definitely make it more interesting I think.

    Another great cartoon, Mark! 🙂