Don’t Despair … There’s Despair Inc.
This is some seriously funny shit. You know all those obnoxious motivational posters hanging on the walls of corporate America? The ones that tell you to reach for your dreams and to follow your heart and to be a team player? Yeah right! Here’s what they really mean … The videos are hysterical … and they offer podcasts as well … This is some wonderfully demented stuff … and really well done too … the kind of stuff Saturday Night Live wishes they could do.
“For the better part of a decade, Despair, Inc. has been engaged in a fierce battle in the marketplace of ideas with the multi-billion dollar motivation industry. In 1998, Despair introduced the world to a darkly insightful line of motivation posters parodies known simply as Demotivators®. In April 2005, Despair co-founder Dr. E.L. Kersten unveiled his landmark management book, “The Art of Demotivation”- a work quickly praised by Financial Times Management Columnist Lucy Kellaway as “the most daring, funny and subversive management book ever written”. With the introduction of video podcasts, Despair opens a new front in the war on motivation- while simultaneously offering a tantalizing glimpse at life inside the company itself. “
