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:

Return Of The Mac

By David Essman | Jul 24, 2020

It’s the ad everyone in the UK advertising community is talking about. McDonald’s had to close all their restaurants for three months because of Covid-19. …

Jack of all trades, master of none – total tosh

By David Essman | Jul 22, 2020

“Jack of all trades, master of none”. Total tosh. When I was on my Foundation year at Art school we got to try out lots …

What if we eliminated all of the BS Jobs?

By David Essman | Jul 20, 2020

There’s a new scourge in town. “BS Jobs”, as made famous by David Graeber. BS Jobs are basically jobs that not only lack any meaning for …

“It’s not failure you should fear” by Rob Long

By David Essman | Jul 15, 2020

  Let me ask you a question:  if someone gave you, say, 50 million dollars today, would you think that’s a lot of money?  I’m …

How empathy won the beer wars

By David Essman | Jul 13, 2020

Back in the 1990s, the two biggest beer brands in the US were Bud Light and Miller Light. When it came to advertising budgets, they …

We Only Control How We Respond – Ryan Holiday

By David Essman | Jul 8, 2020

  The single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can’t. What we have influence over and what …