Volume 03

Accountability & authority

13 cartoons · One missing mandate

Six-panel RBM stickman cartoon: suited barnacles multiply beneath a corporate ship, require approvals for their removal, and recommend fewer crew. The ship sinks while the crew escapes; the barnacles move on to another ship with impressive CVs.

01

Barnacles on the Corporate Hull

More barnacles. Fewer crew. Impressive on a CV.

Eight-panel RBM stickman cartoon: a confident CEO declares travel to Mars solved, dismisses an engineer’s practical objections, switches the destination to Planet Alpha, and demands arrival in three months despite Alpha Centauri being over four light-years away.

02

3 Minutes to Mars

A CEO solves space travel by declaring the constraints implementation details. Then he brings the stars into the fiscal year.

Reality Bytes Me artwork: AuditorIOU

03

AuditorIOU

Abstraction today. Innovation tomorrow. An audit finding disappears beneath layers of wrappers while the underlying problem stays unchanged.

Reality Bytes Me artwork: How Everything Is Going

04

How Everything Is Going

Reality Bytes Me artwork: The Velvet Bulldozer

05

The Velvet Bulldozer

When the fire is strategic, demolition must be diplomatic.

Reality Bytes Me artwork: Accountability without authority

06

Accountability without authority

Reality Bytes Me artwork: No authority, no accountability

07

No authority, no accountability

Reality Bytes Me artwork: Authority with accountability

08

Authority with accountability

Reality Bytes Me artwork: Authority without accountability

09

Authority without accountability

Reality Bytes Me artwork: Can you provide a high-level estimate?

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Can you provide a high-level estimate?

Reality Bytes Me artwork: What would it take to bring the date forward?

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What would it take to bring the date forward?

Reality Bytes Me artwork: Reality Is Complicated

12

Reality Is Complicated

Reality Bytes Me artwork: Accountable for All the Work

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Accountable for All the Work