Word: despairful
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...would be handing Ken Lay his leadership moment," regrets not taking her concerns to a higher authority. To get by, she has cloaked herself in her family and church. "Her faith," says William Vanderbloemen, her pastor at Houston's First Presbyterian, "was sharpened." But so, markedly, was her despair. "There were some very bleak moments throughout when you're just so disappointed with human nature, with the power of greed and the power of denial, trying to rationalize that you've done nothing wrong," she says...
...ocean cruises are your idea of fun, don't despair. This might even be a great time to go shopping for a bargain. The ships have been cleaned. The food and water have been examined and found virus free. According to the CDC, it was probably the passengers who brought the virus aboard...
...coincidence that Despair is booming at this particular moment. Kurt Barnard, a retail consultant in Upper Montclair, N.J., says, "Anytime consumers see an opportunity to get even with corporate America, they'll do it." But Despair is on to some fundamental, painful truths. Gene Hendrix, a lecturer on organization design at San Francisco State University, starts every class with a discussion of a different Despair poster. "What I'm trying to get students to do," he says, "is deal with corporations the way they...
When the first set of what Despair called Demotivator images began circulating around the country via e-mail, the young company had to scramble to establish paternity. With some help from Yahoo, which named Despair a pick of the week, orders began to flow in for posters, coffee mugs, notepads, desk plaques--$500,000 worth in 1999, $900,000 in 2000 and slightly more than $1 million last year. Now headquartered in Austin, Texas, and running lean (everything from printing to shipping is outsourced, and Justin, 31, is both CEO and the sole paid employee), Despair is on track...
...Despair just released its 2003 line of Demotivator designs, but customers are also finding a creepy resonance in older messages. "We hear from people who say things like 'Man, I bought that Blame poster on impulse a couple of years ago,'" Justin says. "'But now I'm seeing that there really are people who believe that success is knowing who to blame for your failures.'" Justin--a college dropout and dotcom failure during the boom, a CEO and dotcom success in 2002--laughs a rueful laugh at that...