June 25, 2004 9:08 AM

Motivation and such
Posted by Jason Butlerat 9:08 AM

Perhaps I'm a little cynical. For whatever reason, I tend to bristle whenever motivational techniques are used on me. For this reason, I have always despised those posters with eagles soaring and sentence fragments exhorting me to blah blah blah blah blah.

At least I'm not the only one. The Wall Street Journal reports on how actual working folk despise these little management motivators.

[S]ome people are grateful to get their inspiration wherever they can, but others resent having their boss think they can be rolled so easily. "I'm not going to change my business philosophy based on a poster," says Michael Loughman, a sales manager who inherited the golf-course photo hanging behind his desk with the caption, "Risk: you can't reach your goals without occasionally taking some long shots." After all, he remarks, "It's not like I wasn't going to take a long shot but then I saw this poster and decided to."

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