Culture is everything. Gapingvoid’s new CEO Report has uncovered something most of us already knew—CEOs who focus their energies on high-purpose cultures succeed on …
I used to have a career
How do you actually get any work done when you spend half the day reading emails? Even worse, when you spend half the day reading …
Creativity at Scale: "What is scarce and valuable are creative cultures *within* organizations."
[Like this cartoon? Sign up to the gapingvoid Daily Cartoon here.] “Creativity at scale” is a nice idea. It’s the lifeblood of large organizations. The …
Miami Beach and the future:
This is one of the pieces we did recently for the Miami Beach Mayor’s Office. Though Miami Beach is mostly known as a tourist town …
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
success has no purpose
[Sent in today’s newsletter etc.] Success is great. We all like it, we all want it. The trouble begins when we start to fetishize it. …
“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, …