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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Slowly, Then All At Once

By David Essman | Aug 12, 2020

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”. What Hemingway wrote about one of …

Why doesn’t anyone know anything?

By David Essman | Aug 9, 2020

The technology business is very much like the movie business: For all the very smart people working in it, the reality is, to quote William Goldman, …

The idea that ate you

By David Essman | Aug 5, 2020

  It was not you who ate the idea, but the idea that ate you… There’s a species of ant that will climb to the …

Are you built for the future?

By David Essman | Aug 3, 2020

We’ve all been reading tons of stuff about life before, during, and after Covid-19. Rightly so, the media is utterly awash with it. Even so, …

When Does It Go Back To Normal?

By David Essman | Jul 29, 2020

The big news this week was, “Google to Keep Employees Home Until Summer 2021 Amid Coronavirus Pandemic”. When the company with the most data in …

Welcome To The Culture War

By David Essman | Jul 27, 2020

Back in 1997, “The Talent War” became a thing when McKinsey & Co made it so. Their idea being, if you can attract enough good people to …