(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 ...

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 ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. They were icons of late-1980s America: framed posters of soaring eagles, rowing teams or lonely mountain peaks, each captioned with a ...

You know those motivational posters you often see in offices, the ones with the signature black border and pithy sayings like, “Possibilities: Today the sidewalk, tomorrow the sky”? (You have to ...

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The National Security Agency is well-known for its surveillance programs, counterintelligence and role in the post-Edward Snowden discourse. Lesser known, perhaps, are the motivational posters the ...

Nylon Media's president, Evan Luzzatto, who worked at Facebook from 2011 to 2014, says a motivational poster taught him to go beyond designated work responsibilities and help where help is needed.

Teachers who create warm and accepting yet business-like atmospheres will promote persistent effort and favorable attitudes toward learning. This strategy will be successful in children and in adults.

Basic principles of motivation exist that are applicable to learning in any education situation. 1. The environment can be used to focus the student’s attention on what needs to be learned. Teachers ...