{"id":602,"date":"2009-10-23T08:54:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T13:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=602"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:04:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:04:33","slug":"the-boys-of-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/10\/23\/the-boys-of-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boys of Autumn?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Being that baseball is all the rage right now in Philadelphia, I figured I’d drag out this particular visual metaphor.<\/p>\n

As I’ve written before, I create these sequential illustrations for a client who works with executives, head honchos and bigwigs. She uses my work as a tool to help get her clients to the next level of their career evolution. These clients provide a metaphor of where they were, where they are and where they want to be. It’s my job visualizing the written metaphor.<\/p>\n

This guy sees his career in terms of owning and running a baseball team to moving up into some big cheese position in one of the leagues, and finally he is the baseball commissioner. I know squat about sports so when all else fails, I throw in a giant, godlike, spectral image and a few planets and stars. It worked for me, and my client liked it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being that baseball is all the rage right now in Philadelphia, I figured I’d drag out this particular visual metaphor. As I’ve written before, I create these sequential illustrations for a client who works with executives, head honchos and bigwigs. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40],"tags":[27,5,39],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visual-metaphors","tag-digital-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-visual-metaphor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41325,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/08\/31\/visual-metaphor-sports-mountains-and-music\/","url_meta":{"origin":602,"position":0},"title":"Visual Metaphor: Sports, Mountains and Music","author":"Joe","date":"August 31, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"This is another in a series of visual metaphors that I provide as a learning tool for executive coaches in order to develop their clients\u2019 leadership skills. 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