Despair, Inc. Video Podcast

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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 (Author: www.despair.com)
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Recent episodes from Despair, Inc. Video Podcast

  • Self Narratives (preview)
    Published: Oct 17, 06
    While most employees evidence a startling lack of intellectual curiosity or creativity, they prove profoundly imaginative when estimating their relative usefulness or postulating visions of their own probable futures. In short, they are prisoners of their own optimistic delusions. In this upcoming segment, Dr. Kersten offers several conversational techniques which can be used to demolish those delusions and liberate employees from the torment of their unrealistic expectations.(This video is on
     
  • Addressing Employee Complaints
    Published: Jan 30, 06
    In this segment, Dr. E.L. Kersten provides executives and managers with a shockingly effective strategy for responding to the complaints of their subordinates.
     
  • Principles Of Organizational Storytelling (abridged)
    Published: Dec 13, 05
    Dr. E.L. Kersten provides a helpful overview of storytelling techniques that can aid executives and managers in the creation of a Radically Demotivating work environment. (NOTE: Audio podcast features additional content.)
     
  • Disconfirmation, Pt. 1 (abridged)
    Published: Dec 13, 05
    Face-to-face interaction of executives with their employee subordinates is an unfortunate necessity in most organizations. However distasteful, such exchanges do provide fertile opportunities for the seeding of Radical Demotivation in the employee psyche. In this segment, Dr. E.L. Kersten explains one of several disconfirmational communication tactics which can be helpful in disabusing employees of their narcissistic delusions of parity. FIRST IN A SERIES. (NOTE: Audio podcast features addit