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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Read our latest posts below:

excellence needs recogntion or else it finds it elsewhere

Seeking: Validation

By David Essman | Aug 22, 2018

You want to attract the best talent? Create the best environment. The work that keeps companies going day in and day out is done by …

I had built Jerusalem south of fourteenth street

Finding your Jerusalem

By David Essman | Aug 20, 2018

In his great poem, “Jerusalem”, William Blake declared that “I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, until we …

The internet will always be a dumpster fire

Opportunity knocks

By David Essman | Aug 17, 2018

If you read the news today, everything seems like a bit of a dumpster fire. The economy, international politics… it all seems a bit of …

That moment when you realize life ain't giving you a trophy

Where’s my trophy?

By David Essman | Aug 16, 2018

Ah. So you spend the first two decades of your life being told that you’re special, that the future belongs to you. Then, SPLAT! You …

The more you love the harder you work

Love is the only driver

By David Essman | Aug 15, 2018

When you love something, it’s far easier to work hard on it, stay late, go the extra mile. When you love somebody, it’s far easier …

The lord blessed me with a healthy dose of desperation

Spiritual Redemption

By David Essman | Aug 14, 2018

Dig a little, and you’ll find a whole minefield of reasons why anyone would be mad enough to become an entrepreneur (*or an artist, I’ve always …