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:

trust

Without trust there is nothing

By David Essman | Jan 30, 2018

  There’s nothing you can do to make people trust you. Except saying only what you mean. Except doing exactly what you say you’re going …

Culture is fluid

Culture happens in between the rules

By David Essman | Jan 29, 2018

  We’re fond of saying “culture is what happens in between the rules”. Culture isn’t policy. Policy isn’t culture. They can inform each other, but …

Connect hope with action

By David Essman | Jan 26, 2018

The one thing that keeps us moving. We all know what it is. Without it we are nothing. With it, we can do anything. But …

You can either love your team

Love it or leave it

By David Essman | Jan 25, 2018

There’s an increasingly popular management idea of building a successful company, one successful team at a time. A team-centric org, as it were. Amazon is …

People buy beliefs

We buy belief in our own human potential

By David Essman | Jan 24, 2018

Again, Elon Musk nails it. We don’t buy gadgets. We buy beliefs. We don’t buy trips to Mars, we buy belief in our own human …

you don't have to own the ocean to sail on it

You don’t need to own it to use it

By David Essman | Jan 23, 2018

Lots of folks think they need to own the platform, not just be able to use it. Sure, you can try to be like Zuk, …