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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What does CNN, FOX and Haagen Dazs have in common?

By David Essman | May 1, 2019

Finally, science has nailed it: consuming negative news via the media makes you less productive at work. We’ve always kinda suspected that, right? Although we …

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Do you really want to be successful?

By David Essman | Apr 30, 2019

People think that the reason organizations are successful is because they’re bigger, meaner, and or smarter than the other guys. That has some special technology, …

‘Soft Skills’ are the ones you really cannot learn

By David Essman | Apr 29, 2019

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 you …

Inclusion: It’s about norms, not policy

By David Essman | Apr 26, 2019

The world is a very scary place. Being human is a very scary undertaking. There’s a lot that can go wrong out there. So we …

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Why Employees Lose Their Motivation

By David Essman | Apr 25, 2019

Napoleon famously said, “Good morale is worth 50,000 men.” That’s another way of saying, in modern business parlance, motivation accounts for roughly 40% of a …

An algorithm where God and sex used to be

Your boss didn’t take the Culture Science© 101 Class…and it’s okay

By David Essman | Apr 24, 2019

Everybody has been talking about Digital Transformation for so long, it’s starting to feel a bit quaint. The process now feels inevitable. As everyone and …