Corporate Culture Archives

Shared sense of purpose

Everybody knows how critical a shared sense of mission is to a team’s fortunes. Napoleon and Julius Caesar certainly knew it, and they …

Some Existential Thoughts On Employee Engagement

SOME EXISTENTIAL THOUGHTS ON EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT: My personal mission: “To make people hate their jobs less.” My company’s mission: “To increase the engagement of …

gapingvoid is getting its HR on

The rumors are true, the team is heading up to Orlando for a big HR event. Official Blurb: Gapingvoid will be at SHRM: 2014 Orlando from June 22nd-25th this …

Why "Culture" is not just another business fad

This was a rather flippant cartoon I drew yesterday in my notebook, that actually makes a serious point about our business model, namely: 1. Now …

Love Matters: Rackspace

Dave shows off his latest Rackspace swag, a black snuggie blanket and my latest “Love Matters” t-shirt that we recently made for them. Like …

Office Art Is Like Sex Or Music…

Nice to see Knoll, the illustrious furniture company trying to have the same conversation via furniture that gapingvoid tries to have via office art i.e. …

information vs knowledge

“How to make your business a better version of itself”

[A nice piece of ‘signalling’ we did for Rackspace etc.] Nice to see Harvard Business Review confirming what gapingvoid has been telling clients for years: …

My New Year Message for 2014: Choose your mountain to die on.

Like I said in my first book, “Ignore Everybody”, everybody was has their own private Mount Everest they were put on this earth to climb. …

"Shaking up Pharma from the inside? Exactly."

[Some of my work appearing at a private event at Roche Pharmaceuticals a couple of months ago.] For the last year, gapingvoid has been working …

Visit the "Hughseum" at The Lab Miami

If you’re ever in Miami and want to check out my work in action, probably the best place to start is over at The Lab, …

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