They’ll do amazing work for their first decade as a growing concern, before going public and becoming same ol’, same ol’ commodified | Continue reading
Companies, businesses and organizations, they’re human constructs, glued together by mutual agreements, mutual agendas, mutual hopes and fears. | Continue reading
The main problem with getting successful doing something meaningful is, it’s a helluva lot of work. It means giving 110%, day in day out | Continue reading
‘The Mondays’ are a cultural phenomenon. It’s something we’re expected to deal with and to commiserate with and to dread. | Continue reading
In the end, nobody finds out what freedom really means until one finds out what freedom really costs. | Continue reading
the first thing I did was stop reading business books and start reading proper literature again- you know, the stuff one should have read in college | Continue reading
. With the Internet, people have never had so much power to choose, so much ability to tell the difference between A and B. | Continue reading
Though computers are amazing time savers in so many ways, they can't create an algorithm for the human condition. | Continue reading
Your boss sits you down and asks you to explain what you’re worth to the company. Where do you start? | Continue reading
Marketing is often the first to get the blame when things go wrong, and the last to get the credit when things go right. | Continue reading
If one is trying to achieve excellence in something, first you need to know what that is, exactly. | Continue reading
Seth Godin likes to talk about you *not* needing a map to get where you’re going, but a compass. | Continue reading
Relationships or transactions? We have a choice. We're in love with data, it's supposed to solve all our problems. | Continue reading
There are plenty talented people out there. But talent will only get you so far. After that, it a comes down to work ethic. | Continue reading
You’ve got a great product, a great concept, a great business… but you still have payroll to meet, all those bills to pay | Continue reading
Harvard Is Vaulting Workers Into the Middle Class With High Pay. Can Anyone Else Follow Its Lead? | Continue reading
One thing you would’ve noticed, had you been living in London in the 1980s, is how good the advertising was. Miles better than the stuff you’d see the USA | Continue reading
While offices have become nicer, people still clamor to work remotely. Many people seem to like it, especially since it saves the trauma of the commute | Continue reading
I first heard the phrase, “I’m going to science the hell out of this” on the excellentAstronomy Cast podcast. | Continue reading
making stuff is more fun than consuming stuff. When they say, “Tis more blessed to give than receive”, this is what they’re talking about. | Continue reading
A key takeaway is that we all need to think about the moments we have to celebrate important milestones in our businesses | Continue reading
The human race depends on people like you building stuff of lasting value, that leaves the world in better shape than how you found it. | Continue reading
When I was twenty years old I was having the time of my life (Mainly because, just like most people at the same age, I had awesome friends). | Continue reading
In the Middle Ages, religious ecstasy was considered the highest form of attainable human state. Hence the famous Bernini sculpture of St Teresa. | Continue reading
Have you noticed how everything starts seeming the same after a while? Why all the pop songs sound like the were written or sung by the same five people. | Continue reading
One of the more interesting effects of the Internet is that it forces entrepreneurs to decide whether they want their companies to be world-class or not. | Continue reading
If you and I stood on opposite ends of the number “6” painted on the floor, it’s likely that one of us would see a “6” and the other would see a “9.” | Continue reading
We, as humans, like to categorize. It makes the world easier to digest. We fit the people around us into labels: users, coworkers, competitors. | Continue reading
So you’ve been trying to let your creative genie out of the bottle for years… decades, even. And have you noticed how it never seems to get easier | Continue reading
Microsoft is not just becoming more family-friendly (especially for new parents), it’s forcing its entire ecosystem to do the same. | Continue reading
We want everyone to feel useful and valued in their workplace. We want culture to reign. We want a genuine world. We can’t do it alone. | Continue reading
The best ideas don’t happen when you’re alone — they might start that way, but they grow and change with input. With flexibility. With help from others. | Continue reading
The big changes happen silently inside us. That moment when we say “Enough!” or “TO hell with it, let’s do it!”, or “I love her!”. | Continue reading
So you want to have life worth living, you want to be be a person worth being. But where to start…? The first thing, of course, is that you *decide*. | Continue reading
Lately I’ve been following the work of Cheap Trick a lot, that great 1980s garage band from Rockford, Illinois. | Continue reading
Learn more about Set Yourself Free from Gapingvoid, the leaders in workplace culture consulting and making work more meaningful! 305-763-8503 | Continue reading
For years I thought the way to be successful was to excel at something, say, business or writing or science or directing films. | Continue reading
A great thing about working in the advertising business, is it teaches you to always be asking the question, “Why should I be interested?” | Continue reading
The work that keeps companies going day in and day out is done by your employees, and for that they deserve more than just fair pay and reasonable hours | Continue reading
The thing is, we’re all looking for Jerusalem, in our own way. A place where we can be our best selves, a place where we can do our best work. | Continue reading
If you read the news today, everything seems like a bit of a dumpster fire. The economy, international politics… it all seems a bit of a mess. | Continue reading
Ah. So you spend the first two decades of your life being told that you’re special, that the future belongs to you. Then, SPLAT! You hit the real world | Continue reading
When you love an idea, it’s far easier to sell it to others. The trouble starts when the love isn’t there. The trouble starts when you start faking it. | Continue reading
Dig a little, and you’ll find a whole minefield of reasons why anyone would be mad enough to become an entrepreneur | Continue reading
You notice this, as you get older: That you can be terribly clever and right all the time, yet still be pretty unsuccessful. | Continue reading
Anybody trying to do anything creative is haunted by the ever-present idea of failure. | Continue reading
Twitter, Facebook, Medium, LinkedIn etc are awash with self-impressed founder-entrepreneur types who LOVE talking about the glories of sacrifice | Continue reading
many times a day we are reminded that habits and behaviors are cited as the root cause of great disability, and the opportunity for vibrant health | Continue reading