Motivating posters for your startup
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#22Houston, we've jumped the shark.
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#23When I see those, I always remember the quote from Peopleware - DeMarco / Lister : "These motivational accessories, as they are called (including slogan coffee mugs, plaques, pins, key chains, and awards), are a triumph of form over substance. They seem to extol the importance of Quality, Leadership, Creativity, Teamwork, Loyalty, and a host of other organizational virtues. But they do so in such simplistic terms as…
My first thought was of the more cynical http://www.despair.com/motivation.html Motivation: If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon.
I clicked in to this thread purely to post a despair.com link. You beat me to it, and you also posted the most appropriate link!
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#24There are 14 posters here, but the five I can see above the "fold" on my 1440-pixel high monitor are definitely the worst five. The last five posters are awesome because they say something that it's possible to disagree with, and is therefore worth saying. The top five are trite and cheesy.
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#25To be perfectly honest I'd be pretty offended if a place where I was working put these on the walls.. The Holstee Manifesto ( http://shop.holstee.com/?campaignid=446&mbsy=7pD ) I understand, because it's great. But these are just trite and tacky, form over function kind of stuff. I reckon I'd be far more inspired by, you know, pictures of the team. Or lolcats.
Or some Dilbert giant comics poster.
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#26I just had a torn out page from a magazine with Audi RS4 on it framed and hung on the wall at the eye level. As dumb as it was, it did miracles during the crunch times.
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#27But... that's Visual Studio's logo right there.
... which in itself represents an infinite VS crash-restart cycle that ensues if you ever to mess with a project resource file by hand :)
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#28When I see those, I always remember the quote from Peopleware - DeMarco / Lister : "These motivational accessories, as they are called (including slogan coffee mugs, plaques, pins, key chains, and awards), are a triumph of form over substance. They seem to extol the importance of Quality, Leadership, Creativity, Teamwork, Loyalty, and a host of other organizational virtues. But they do so in such simplistic terms as…
I doubt that many people see these posters as a substitute for hard work and managerial talent. Why not put your core values on the walls? It is a reminder of what the company thinks is important, which is a step above what we often have at my job.
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#29Do not buy. These are from the evil LeadLander guys: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4891637
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#30When I see those, I always remember the quote from Peopleware - DeMarco / Lister : "These motivational accessories, as they are called (including slogan coffee mugs, plaques, pins, key chains, and awards), are a triumph of form over substance. They seem to extol the importance of Quality, Leadership, Creativity, Teamwork, Loyalty, and a host of other organizational virtues. But they do so in such simplistic terms as…
And echoing one of the items from W. Edwards Deming's list of deadly diseases (from "Out of the Crisis", 1982): "Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force…
The posters here say the opposite of demanding perfection.