The Ambiguous Crisis – Dr. Keith Merron

“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. It is an ambiguous crisis”.  | Continue reading


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How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley

The word ‘innovation’ is invoked with alarming frequency by companies trying to sound up to date but with little or no systematic idea about how it occurs. | Continue reading


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This Kind of Transformation: Dragged Kicking and Screaming

For the last decade or so, the consultant-thinkfluencer-futurist-guru crowd has been harping on a lot about “Digital Transformation”. | Continue reading


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Systems of Trust by Jeremy Epstein

Systems of Trust surround us. We rely on them thousands of times a day to help us establish trust with people we don’t know | Continue reading


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Fair Winds Do Not A Great Capitan Make

Joan Miró is one of the most important artists of the Twentieth Century; his pieces adorn all the major museums. | Continue reading


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You WILL be disrupted

To be disrupted, they don’t have to do everything better than you. They just have to do one of two things better than you | Continue reading


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Together, but not really

What’s remarkable about The New Normal is not how different it is (and for most of us, it is), but HOW QUICKLY it sprang into being. | Continue reading


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Don’t Just Hope Things Improve

The one thing that keeps us moving.We all know what it is.Without it we are nothing.With it, we can do anything. | Continue reading


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Relevance Isn’t That Complicated.

Last time we checked, people were far more interested in boring stuff like paying their bills and how their kids are doing in school.  | Continue reading


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How’s It Feel To Be A Movie Star

Well, Congratulations, Former 1990s Twentysomethings!Thanks to Coronavirus, you are now living in a movie, a disaster movie, kinda sorta. | Continue reading


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It Sure Beats Drowning!

This world is a chaotic place, and here we are, trying to maintain some kind of order in our little corner of it. | Continue reading


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See The World With A Fresh Pair Of Eyes

Have you ever wondered why so many people you know raised in traditional religions, say, Judaism or Catholicism, discard them in favor of more non-traditional alternatives? | Continue reading


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Springing Back To Life!

We are alive. It’s our job not to die. It’s our job to find new ways to come alive, by any means necessary. | Continue reading


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Nurses Make The World Go Round – Share Your Stories!

It shouldn’t take Nurses Month to honor the amazing men and women who sacrifice their health on a daily basis to care for us. | Continue reading


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A New Remote Era Unfolds

Then earlier this week, David tweeted:“Companies new to remote work are in for a bit of shock treatment. Yes, it's going to be confusing and frustrating when you try to go from none to all in a day. But these are skills and habits you can learn. It's not magic. Here's a comms gui … | Continue reading


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Love In The Time Of Coronavirus (free ebook download below)

Learn more about Love In The Time Of Coronavirus (free ebook download below) from Gapingvoid, the leaders in workplace culture consulting and making work more meaningful! 305-763-8503 | Continue reading


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Spare Time is for Work?

One of the advantages of working from home is, work-life balance can be easier to attain.Let’s be honest, nobody who works in an office actually works eight hour days.  | Continue reading


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Crisis and Creativity: Odd Bedfellows

If you ever lived in Chicago, you’d have noticed that the quality of the arts there is generally very, very high | Continue reading


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Living Through The Dry Season

That’s when the rivers ran low, and the earth was parched, the hunted animals were thin on the ground, and there was very little food to eat. | Continue reading


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Leadership In The Time Of Coronavirus Ebook

Learn more about Leadership In The Time Of Coronavirus Ebook from Gapingvoid, the leaders in workplace culture consulting and making work more meaningful! 305-763-8503 | Continue reading


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Culture As An Emotional Landscape

“So, this weekend and yesterday was an amazing time for the tribe, and super energizing, but I also want to recognize that I am having waves of different emotions through the day. | Continue reading


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Whatever you do, don’t do this!

They say you shouldn’t watch your stock portfolio daily, you should just check on it every couple of weeks | Continue reading


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Culture Must Be Designed

What did they learn from their studies? That people, however virtuous, are still fallible. | Continue reading


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How Picasso Dealt With Crisis

During the WWII German occupation of Paris, Picasso said of it, to paraphrase, “There was nothing to do except to work hard, struggle for food, visit quietly with friends, and wait for peace.” | Continue reading


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BEWARE THE IDEAVIRUS

Behaviors are changing, mindsets are changing, beliefs are being challenged. There will be long-lasting changes. It will be fascinating to see how it all unfolds.  | Continue reading


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A Copywriter’s Secret by Chris Worth

So what’s the secret? Here it is – the success plan for a sustainable freelance career, the searing insight behind all economic activity that’ll bring you health, wealth, and happiness: | Continue reading


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The Art of Disruption – by Neil French

How a few Brits changed a dot on the map of South-East Asia into a creative hotspot | Continue reading


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Is this the burnout you signed up for?

Seems there are two main forms of burnout.The first is inherent burnout. You’re in an inherently high-stress gig, like healthcare, finance, air traffic control. | Continue reading


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We Proved It. CEOs Who Embrace Culture Win!

CEOs Who Invest in High-Purpose Cultures Produce Happier Teams, Higher Share Value and Greater Personal Prestige. | Continue reading


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The trick is there is no trick

A lot of kids travel to China every year, hoping to find some magical Martial Arts secrets. | Continue reading


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Why We Wrote “Angrynomics” – by Mark Blyth

Learn more about Why We Wrote “Angrynomics” - by Mark Blyth from Gapingvoid, the leaders in workplace culture consulting and making work more meaningful! 305-763-8503 | Continue reading


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Two All Beef Patties, or Honor your Mother and Father?

The interesting thing about the Ten Commandments is that there are only ten of them. | Continue reading


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Managing Others? You Need To Declare Yourself by Marla Gottschalk

Adjusting to any new role is a challenge. There are countless elements that must be mastered; core tasks, a new organizational culture, and team commitments. | Continue reading


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Start-Up Mentality Syndrome

Yeah, well, 90% of startups go out of business in the first five years. Do your shareholders really want your bosses giving your company a 90% chance of implosion by 2024? Of course not. | Continue reading


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The Fox Story by Joshua Benton

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 of Hungary by rail. He was the first of what would eventually be 12 born to parents Michael and Hannah. | Continue reading


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How To Find Your Niche

The biggest conversation we see seems to be that these ad agencies can no longer attract the talent they once could, losing out to internet companies and tech startups. That’s not a good sign. | Continue reading


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Lesson I’ve Learned by Tucker Max

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 go.Simple to understand. But hard to do. | Continue reading


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Why excellence is a moral act

Sure, “Excellence” is one of those words that execs like to overuse, like to throw around the office like confetti. Why? Because it’s easy. It sounds good, or at least, it sounds like something that sounds good. | Continue reading


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Mojo For Sale

Apparently, you need to make $136,500 p.a. to be happy in Austin. Around ten grand per month. Sounds about right.  | Continue reading


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Great Design for Everyone by Richard Moross

It was a long time after MOO launched that we started calling it a ‘Purpose’ or a ‘North Star’ but it was always there... | Continue reading


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It’s The Little Things

Whereas maybe, just maybe, there’s more actual insight one can use today, right now, at a much smaller scale, closer to home. | Continue reading


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DAVOS: The case for the meeting that everyone loves to hate. by David Brain.

This week sees 3,000 of the “global elite” gather on the top of a Swiss mountain to opine on the state of the world and people could not be more outraged. Again. | Continue reading


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Make An Impossible Dream A Future Reality

They bring us a new idea or a new way to do things. They challenge us to think differently, they challenge the status quo. They make things that previously seemed impossible, possible. | Continue reading


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Celebrate Small Wins

You'll find that if you assume the best, if you give your best, then things just work better. Call it love, call it positive intent, it spreads. | Continue reading


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Walking the CEO Walk

We already know that the main job of a CEO is not to do any of the work the company is known for, but to *inform the behaviors* of the people doing the actual work. | Continue reading


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How Do You Recover Your Greatness?

Learn more about How Do You Recover Your Greatness? from Gapingvoid, the leaders in workplace culture consulting and making work more meaningful! 305-763-8503 | Continue reading


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Inclusion Is Life Or Death

Learn more about Inclusion Is Life Or Death from Gapingvoid, the leaders in workplace culture consulting and making work more meaningful! 305-763-8503 | Continue reading


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The Wages of Charisma

According to these guys, extroverts are more likely to be promoted to CEO than introverts, though introverts will probably do a better job at being CEO. | Continue reading


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