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:

Grown Up

It’s okay. You’re allowed to be wrong.

By David Essman | Aug 10, 2017

  It’s no wonder we’re afraid to be wrong. As kids, being wrong meant lower scores on tests – which meant no college, which meant …

genius is random work ethic isn't

Make yourself irreplaceable

By David Essman | Aug 9, 2017

  How much do you care about what you do? That’s what matters. That’s the killer metric. Smart is good. Great, even. But what people …

crap jobs are created by other people

Yourself, your job, your job description

By David Essman | Aug 7, 2017

  Our friend Seth Godin says to not be the best. But to be the ONLY. There was a great HBR podcast recently on this. …

couldn't do this without you

The worst thing I could imagine

By David Essman | Aug 4, 2017

  Partnership is partnership, whether in business or in love. The fundamental needs are the same: trust, communication, openness, vulnerability. There needs to be a …

Best Selves

Bring your best self to work day

By David Essman | Aug 3, 2017

  What if you were allowed to be your best self at work? This is the title of a talk delivered by Dan Cable at …

Authentic is just another word

Doing the authentic

By David Essman | Aug 2, 2017

  We define ourselves as doers. Changers. People who push on towards a goal. But we know we can only define ourselves as those things …