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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leave me alone

Is your purpose to be “crushing it” all the time?

By David Essman | Jan 22, 2018

If one’s Facebook feed is anything to go buy, it seems the whole point of existence is to be “crushing it” all the time. To …

If you look after your customer

If you look after them

By David Essman | Jan 19, 2018

They say the secret to being successful is to (A) have a great product and (B) love your customer. Simple enough… But you can make it …

A Calm and Modest Life

Albert Einstein’s Theory of Happiness

By David Essman | Jan 18, 2018

From NPR- October, 2017: Somebody did buy happiness. Albert Einstein’s theory of happiness sold at auction. Someone paid $1.3 million for a piece of paper. …

Imagination is life

Imagination Is Life

By David Essman | Jan 17, 2018

  Between the death of Isaac Newton and the birth of Albert Einstein, the most important physicist was the Scot, James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwell’s Equations are …

Inner potential

Set yourself free

By David Essman | Jan 16, 2018

  I always like to think we have two selves… The first is our potential self. That’s the person we would be if we would …

I don't need you to come up with new ideas

Make the old the “new and improved”

By David Essman | Jan 15, 2018

  We all have heard THAT definition of insanity a hundred times. The problem is that many people just wish they lived in an alternate reality. Do …