Despair, Inc. Video Podcast
By www.despair.com
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Podcast Description
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 2004, 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 daring, funny and subversive management book ever written". With the introduction of video podcasts, Despair opens a new front in the war on motivation- while simultaneously offering a tantalizing glimpse at life inside the company itself. (In HD where available.)
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Video Self Narratives (Preview) | 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 only a preview of the upcoming Self-Narratives video, to be released later this month.) | 10/16/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Video Addressing Employee Complaints | In this segment, Dr. E.L. Kersten provides executives and managers with a shockingly effective strategy for responding to the complaints of their subordinates. | 1/29/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Video Principles of Organizational Storytelling (Abridged) | Dr. E.L. Kersten provides an 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.) | 12/13/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Video Disconfirmation, Pt. 1 (Abridged) | 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 helpful to disabuse employees of their narcissistic delusions of parity. FIRST IN A SERIES. (NOTE: Audio podcast features additional content.) | 12/13/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 4 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
A Polished Mocumentary with Bone-Dry Satire and Terrific Acting.
The episodes, so far, have greatly exceeded my expectations all the way around. This is the "Spinal Tap" of workplaces. I laughed out loud several times in each episode. I cringe at the thought of a manager/pointy-haired boss who actually takes the material to-heart and puts it into practice. "More please, Sir!"
Verrrrrry Unusual
We find here a true genius, a man far behind his time. It is humbling how much we lnow compared to this giant in the demotivating industry. I make it a point to read anything by this powerful man. For any birthday or holiday or funeral, I find myself thumbing through the catalogue or deeply involved in DESPAIR.COM. If you go to no other website, ever, go to DESPAIR.COM. Spend until your credit cards are maxed out. You will not regret it.
Enjoy.
Quite Entertaining
This video podcast is similar to the show "The Office", except that it's only from one person's perspective. Well worth the download.
