T/F: Anything can be taught. False. Big false. Lots of things can be taught, especially if we’re talking skills, but soft skills are something …
Career Hierarchy
[Originally sent out in the newsletter etc.] I don’t know about you, but it took me twenty years to get from the bottom to the …
are we hardwired to hierarchy?
One of the main arguments we use to rationalize moronic and soul-destroying hierarchies in our workplace is that we’re biologically programmed that way i.e. it …
from hierarchy to wirearchy
A real gem from Jon Husband from last June: From Hierarchy to Wirearchy: Overview What do you do as a leader
hierarchy vs flow
[NOTE TO SELF:] The market is for “Flow” is larger than the market for “Hierarchy”. Rock on.
company hierarchy
It’s cool to be kind
‘Nice’ and ‘successful’ aren’t mutually exclusive. Actually, they go together rather nicely. As a leader, your job is to unite your team, whether it …
Life without dissonance
According to Maslow’s well-known Hierarchy of Needs, the person can never feel whole without a sense of self-actualization. Self-actualization never ends — it …
Making Lemonade
Successful managers are flawed, because we’re all flawed. Great C-level executives are flawed, because we’re all flawed. Talented employees are flawed, because – you get …
mapping the pyramids
Structure has taken a new from. What we once knew as hierarchy, long-time Gapingvoid friend Jon Husband calls “wirearchy.” And John says that the big change won’t be …
Zappos is forcing new job candidates to join its own social network
[Buy the print etc.] From The Verge: That résumé you’ve been laboring on won’t get you very far at Zappos. The online shoe retailer owned …
"You have to love them every day, even if they don't buy from you every day."
Thanks so much to Vivek Haldar for his fantastic testimonial for our new line of gapingvoid laptop stickers, which I’m quoting in full, below [Photo- …