Many of our office walls are adorned with motivational posters, designed to inspire employees and increase productivity. Many of these posters are purely decorative and pair inspirational quotes with ...

A University of Iowa College of Business professor says motivational posters with inspirational messages that adorn many of our workplace walls often do little to motivate or inspire employees. Ken ...

When I first started in business 30 years ago, I would hang motivational sayings around not only my desk, but also my home. I thought that if I could surround myself with quotes of others, it would ...

Remember the cheesy posters that used to hang on office walls? Some were professionally created, framed office décor. But just as often, you would see these quotes pinned to cork boards beside a desk ...

(MoneyWatch) I have always hated motivational posters. If I never see another picture of an eagle, rowing crew, sharpened pencil or mountain climber gracing someone's office walls, it won't be too ...

While reading the new profile of Apple design guru Jony Ive in the New Yorker, I found myself yearning for visuals when writer Ian Parker described the contents of Ive’s sketchbooks. Not to mention ...

Four years ago, a cloud computing company called Rackspace was exploding. Hiring at a rate of 100 people per month, it had bought a 1.3 million-square-foot abandoned shopping mall in San Antonio—soon ...

They were icons of late-1980s America: framed posters of soaring eagles, rowing teams or lonely mountain peaks, each captioned with a mighty concept like "Perseverance," "Teamwork" or "Excellence" and ...