New DespairWear: The “Wishes” Tee
August 30, 2007 at 2:04 am
Our most earth-shattering Demotivator design is now available as an illustrated T-shirt!
Video - Self Narratives
August 28, 2007 at 7:31 pm
While most employees evidence a startling lack of intellectual curiosity or creativity, they prove profoundly imaginative when estimating their relative usefulness or when postulating visions of their own probable futures. In short, they are prisoners of their own optimistic delusions. In this online video, Dr. Kersten offers several conversational techniques which can be used to demolish those delusions and liberate employees from the torment of their unrealistic expectations.
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Video - Addressing Employee Complaints
August 28, 2007 at 7:13 pm
In this segment, Dr. E.L. Kersten provides executives and managers with a shockingly effective strategy for responding to the complaints of their subordinates.
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Video - Disconfirmation
August 28, 2007 at 7:12 pm
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.
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Video - Principles of Organizational Storytelling
August 28, 2007 at 7:11 pm
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.
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Introducing the Despair Blog
August 28, 2007 at 12:10 am
Yes, at the moment, the much hyped and already once delayed blog is rather sparsely populated with videos already available (in lower-resolution format) in our Corporate Spin section. Is there any better way to kick off the Despair, Inc. blog than with a dollop of disappointment, sprinkled with annoyance?
As it happens, the latest video is slowly being converted from a massive Quicktime file into a leaner Flash file. And after it gets uploaded, then ANOTHER new video will follow on Wednesday, which will also see the launch of a brand-new, certain-to-be-wildly-popular addition to our growing DespairWear family will be added.
In short, you really need to bookmark this page, subscribe to this RSS feed, or, if your existence is utterly and completely tragic, make this your HomePage. Because Despair is about to start rockin’ like Dokken.