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:

Start-Up Mentality Syndrome

By David Essman | Feb 19, 2020

  Let’s say you work for a large, publicly-traded company with say, sixty thousand or so employees. And suddenly you’re hearing your bosses say “We …

The Fox Story by Joshua Benton

By David Essman | Feb 12, 2020

  141 years ago, on New Year’s Day, a boy was born in Tolcsva, a village connected only a few years earlier to the rest …

How To Find Your Niche

By David Essman | Feb 11, 2020

Like everyone else, we’re always asking the question, what is the future of advertising? What’s to become of these big international behemoths like Publicis or …

Lesson I’ve Learned by Tucker Max

By David Essman | Feb 6, 2020

  Lesson Learned #14: The way to move past an emotion is to first allow yourself to fully feel it. Only then can you let it …

Why excellence is a moral act

By David Essman | Feb 3, 2020

Our Twitter friend, the bestselling author Tom Peters, famously made the word, “Excellence” a thing since the 1970s, when his groundbreaking book, “In Search Of Excellence” caught the …

Mojo For Sale

By David Essman | Jan 31, 2020

Apparently, you need to make $136,500 p.a. to be happy in Austin. Around ten grand per month. Sounds about right. Though it does occur to me …