February 8, 2005

motivational poster

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The cartoon above would be a good motivational poster...

Yeah, I'm thinking more about that business.

An obvious Hughtrain tie-in, wouldn't you say?

Doc Searls once decribed me as, "Dilbert for people whose jobs don't suck."

By the way, I sincerely don't mind people downloading my images, printing them out and sticking them on their office walls. In fact, I rather they would. Good PR and all that.

Posted by hugh macleod at February 8, 2005 6:45 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Haha nice. That's up there with "Feed the poor to the hungry".

Posted by: Tim at February 8, 2005 7:35 PM

"The cartoon above would be a good motivational poster..."


Only if you're working for the Bush administration.

Posted by: Timbo at February 8, 2005 9:08 PM

Hee. I've already got eight on my cube wall.

Posted by: Jennifer at February 9, 2005 12:57 AM

but... aren't you afraid here of being dismissed as cheesy or cliche? that's what most of those motivational posters things say to me. they say "look at me, i'm a lovely piece of mass-produced inspiration, aren't i awesome?" i don't really buy it.... but i guess some people do.

Posted by: plaidgirl at February 9, 2005 2:02 AM

But I want to be a lovely mass-produced piece of inspiration...

[NOTE TO SELF:] It isn't selling out until you've found a buyer Bwah ha ha ha ha ha....

Posted by: hugh macleod at February 9, 2005 2:32 AM

My inspiration wall currently contains 17 cutouts. 4 of them are Hughtrain creations.

Posted by: Peg at February 9, 2005 2:52 AM

i guess i just thought this whole hughtrain thing and 'improving the conversation' was less about that sort of commercialism. perhaps that's just my naive perspective though.

Posted by: plaidgirl at February 9, 2005 4:31 AM

You've seen the Demotivators, right? http://www.demotivators.com/

Posted by: Foobar at February 9, 2005 8:06 AM

Sure, Foo. Demotivators was talked about in the last post on this subject. Though not for long.

Plaidgirl, just because their product is cheesy, doesn't mean my product has to be.

Although I might make it cheesy anyway, just to keep 'em guessing ;-)

I mean, can you imagine anything worse than if I got into the whole sincerity thing? "Hugh MacLeod, the Michael Stipe of Corporate life." Yeegads.

Posted by: hugh macleod at February 9, 2005 10:19 AM

Haha, a couple hours before you posted this, I took a printout of "being totally fucking amazing is Job One" and slid it behind the glass on a poster of our company's ISO 9001:2001 certificate. It's a bit more to the point than the legalese meandering I partially covered up.

Posted by: Peter Orosz at February 9, 2005 3:44 PM