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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Anil Bahnsali at the Culture Wall inauguration at the Microsoft Campus in Hyderabad, India

Why Your Job is to Align and Simplify

By David Essman | Oct 31, 2018

  Align and Simplify. Where are you going? Not for dinner…I mean, what’s your big picture? Is everyone on board? No matter what you think, …

nothing happens until somebody feels something

Why change management is emotional

By David Essman | Oct 30, 2018

Most leaders expect results to improve strictly through data, ignoring how people feel. The truth is that without altering the emotional landscape of an organization, it is really …

Unlock human creativity

What Comes Next?

By David Essman | Oct 29, 2018

We live in an the era of “The Four”– the four great companies that dominate the first iteration of the World Wide Web: Google (search), Amazon …

My last words will be thank you

What are you thankful for?

By David Essman | Oct 26, 2018

If you’re lucky, eventually you get to the point when your realize that, while you were here you had an amazing time of things. What …

A blank piece of paper is like a new dawn

How to grab your window of opportunity

By David Essman | Oct 25, 2018

Van Gough made some breakthrough paintings for about 5-10 years, before his life ended. Warhol was making some pretty radical art for about six or …

everything that is not a law of nature

The social construction of reality

By David Essman | Oct 24, 2018

It really doesn’t need to be any more complicated than that. Companies, businesses and organizations, they’re human constructs, glued together by mutual agreements, mutual agendas, …