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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Feeling Depressed?

By David Essman | Jun 9, 2020

  Angry? Confused? Scared? Fed up? Depressed? Numb, even? We know what the bad news is. COVID, the lockdown, injustice, racism, the recession, the upcoming election, …

Compassion Wins

By David Essman | Jun 4, 2020

We, as humans, like to categorize. It makes the world easier to digest. We fit the people around us into labels: users, coworkers, competitors. Then …

The Post No-Life Era

By David Essman | May 29, 2020

  The Economist has this fascinating article about the “Death of The Office”, wondering if maybe, just maybe, in the post-Coronavirus world, the idea of the …

The Ambiguous Crisis – Dr. Keith Merron

By David Essman | May 25, 2020

“Coronavirus is not a crisis. It is an ambiguous crisis”. F.O.G*, Dr. Keith Merron has a great article on the current situation, “Coronavirus is not a crisis. …

How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley

By David Essman | May 20, 2020

  The word ‘innovation’ is invoked with alarming frequency by companies trying to sound up to date but with little or no systematic idea about …

This Kind of Transformation: Dragged Kicking and Screaming

By David Essman | May 18, 2020

    For the last decade or so, the consultant-thinkfluencer-futurist-guru crowd has been harping on a lot about “Digital Transformation”. Of course, this meant that …