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by swalberg 4934 days ago
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.

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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!
I know that the word "hack" is over-used these days, so I say this with some trepidation, but when I first ran across the despair.com posters, I wast quite overwhelmed with the brilliance and success of their "hack" of the motivational poster paradigm.

Having spent a number of years in corporate life, often in offices spotted if not plastered with such posters, their parody quite hit home for me.

One I remember particularly well:

http://www.despair.com/burnout.html