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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If you're waiting for someone else to make you happy at work

Happiness vs Pleasure

By David Essman | Oct 24, 2017

Our friend Seth Godin wrote about the different sciences of happiness in his blog. “There’s happiness, and then there’s pleasure. Pleasure works on dopamine. Little hits at …

Only as good as

What’s love got to do with it?

By David Essman | Oct 20, 2017

  The media loves to write stories about the big guys. The big CEOs running the big companies, with billions of dollars changing hands and …

culture is a virus

Watch out, it’s contagious

By David Essman | Oct 19, 2017

  Think about it: the word, “culture” is derived from the Latin “colere”, which means “to grow”. Which also means, a great culture is not …

everybody participates

It’s a joint effort

By David Essman | Oct 18, 2017

  The advertising titan, Leo Burnett once famously said, “Great ads don’t care who wrote them”. Leo just wanted a great ad to show to …

inspired action

Motivation, it’s what we’ve got

By David Essman | Oct 18, 2017

  Action without inspiration is worth little. Inspiration without action is worth even less. So that is your assignment: to find a way that allows …

Startup Culture is Culture

StartUp Land

By David Essman | Oct 17, 2017

  Jeff Bussgang over at Harvard Business School wrote a book about how to join a startup. His reasoning: to help you find a job with a …