The Gapingvoid Email

Three times a week, we'll send you a thought-provoking illustration about the world of work along with a short snippet of insight. Our emails cover topics like company culture, design thinking, leadership strategies, creating better-functioning teams, navigating the hybrid work environment, and more. They are designed as quick reads to give you insight into working smarter and being more connected to why you do what you do. We also feature guest posts from thought leaders around the world and answer culture questions sent in by our readers. People who enjoy the daily email most are often senior leaders in business, healthcare execs, entrepreneurs, and academics.

 

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Love your moments of doubt: they drive breakthroughs

By David Essman | Aug 12, 2019

Ideo CEO Sandy Speicher talks about “Constructivism” in order to solve problems. “Constructivism” is a theory of learning, where the brain creates new mental models in …

WAIT… YOU MEAN THERE ISN’T A TOOTH FAIRY?

By David Essman | Aug 9, 2019

Some of the best career advice we’ve ever seen was from our collaborator Seth Godin: “There is no Tooth Fairy.” Your movie will never be bought by …

Scared of Success?

By David Essman | Aug 8, 2019

  Out of fear may come comfort, but also out of fear often comes a sense of unfulfillment. You spend your whole life being scared, …

Marketing and Shakespeare – A Pretentious Metaphor – by David Brain

By David Essman | Aug 7, 2019

    The battle between free-will and determinism is not one that is customarily associated with the marketing or communications industry.  Thankfully, it’s more often …

The secret to culture

By David Essman | Aug 2, 2019

  In the early 1980s, British pop music was fairly stagnant. Real emotion, real feeling, was out. Pretense, posturing, pouting, attitude and escapism was in. …

The best chance of making innovation actually work

By David Essman | Aug 1, 2019

  We live in a society that mostly rewards innovation over everything else. Certainly, the stock market would concur. So if you’re smart, you’re building …