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Article: The successories president: the posterized secret of Obama's success?(Barack Obama )(Column)
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- Reason
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- February 1, 2009
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ON THAT HISTORIC evening in November, as Barack Obama definitively made passe the notion that we cannot, the president-elect's acceptance speech signified a triumph not just for his campaign but for motivational wall decor. Like a Successories catalog made flesh, Obama invoked burning beacons, long roads, steep climbs, and new dawns. He was lofty, he was declamatory, he was as aesthetically challenging as a majestic golf course on a crisp autumn morning. And yet his well-worn rhetoric managed to move multitudes. Could it be that all those corny corporate psalms to Character and Service, the ones hanging in regional sales offices and telemarketing call centers across the ...