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
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
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
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
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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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
If you ever lived in Chicago, you’d have noticed that the quality of the arts there is generally very, very high | Continue reading
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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“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
They say you shouldn’t watch your stock portfolio daily, you should just check on it every couple of weeks | Continue reading
What did they learn from their studies? That people, however virtuous, are still fallible. | Continue reading
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
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
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
How a few Brits changed a dot on the map of South-East Asia into a creative hotspot | Continue reading
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
CEOs Who Invest in High-Purpose Cultures Produce Happier Teams, Higher Share Value and Greater Personal Prestige. | Continue reading
A lot of kids travel to China every year, hoping to find some magical Martial Arts secrets. | Continue reading
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
The interesting thing about the Ten Commandments is that there are only ten of them. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
Apparently, you need to make $136,500 p.a. to be happy in Austin. Around ten grand per month. Sounds about right. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
the director can’t do his job unless everybody is doing their best. You need other people. You need the actors and the technicians and the carpenters and everyone else all hitting the ball out of the park. | Continue reading
Love is a thing that we have to feel for ourselves, for our family, for our friends, for our partners. | Continue reading
Catastrophe: A Six-Step PlanWhen CEOs and overall corporate cultures fail, so often there is a pervasive culture of fear involved. | Continue reading
Those 100-hour workweek/zero real-life might work for maybe 1% of the population who are hardwired that way, for the rest of us, it would simply make us miserable. | Continue reading
If you’re lucky, eventually you get to the point when you realize that, while you were here you had an amazing time of things. What a trip! What an amazing adventure! | Continue reading
Think of mistakes in business. Think of the great business disasters say, the 1990s AOL-TimeWarner merger, or Coca Cola changing their secret formula in the 1980s, or Softbank recently giving all those billions to WeWork. Stuff like that. | Continue reading
Around 1800, Charles Barbier was an artillery officer in Napoleon’s army.One of the problems he noticed was the soldiers kept getting shot at night | Continue reading
One. People don’t care about you. They especially don’t care about your product, so you need to give them a reason to give a hoot.Two. People don’t read. | Continue reading
I’ve always been curious about other people’s culture - yes, food and feasting and so on but also the little etiquettes and rituals that shape human interaction and - as I seem to say all too often these days - the Space Between Us. | Continue reading
Every company boss is sitting on a big ole pile of unused potential, and the question is always about how one taps into it.That’s kinda what “creativity” means, at least in this context. | Continue reading