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:

without love

“Without Love I am Nothing”

By David Essman | Mar 2, 2018

True story: This line came out of an original drawing I gave to Bill Gates, the first time I ever visited Microsoft campus in Redmond. I …

entrepreneurial mindset

Why every business needs entrepreneurs.

By David Essman | Mar 1, 2018

Entrepreneurial mindset is still misunderstood by many non-entrepreneurs. It is really a truth seeking, growth focused mental model that is fixated getting things done. Not just …

What a lovely grain of sand you are

Blaze your own trail

By David Essman | Feb 28, 2018

The famous Long Island band, The Stray Cats got their breakout moment in 1980, when on a whim, they sold all their stuff and flew to London, …

Innovation is mostly copying

Innovation is the sincerest form of flattery

By David Essman | Feb 27, 2018

Don’t worry: you’re not the first one to have a really creative idea that’s mostly someone else’s idea with a few tweaks. That’s innovation. For …

be useful be grateful

Be Useful, Be Grateful

By David Essman | Feb 26, 2018

Our friend, Joe Polish, is the founder of Genius Network, and is one of those people that everyone loves. He is generous, giving and elevates everyone …

tune in, listen to what people are saying.

The one and only way to get accurate engagement data

By David Essman | Feb 23, 2018

Something is going on. It’s huge and it is impacting all of us. All of the conventional ways of ‘listening’ to people aren’t working and …