Motivational posters ain't gonna get you growth

"Slap something on the wall and hope it resonates with others" is a nice little management strategy. (See also: the "core values" of most places.) But does it work? Good Lord no.

I think motivational posters (see picture above) are a little bit of a throwback/relic to the working environments of the 1960s, but the spirit of them lives on today. Typically, this happens in memes that people send around on work email threads, oftentimes on Friday afternoons. (Someday, in the distant future, people may pull their head out of their p…