Motivational Archives

gapingvoid Valentines Day Commissions

[Photo courtesy of Robert O. Dow – Warpaint Resources] [Photo courtesy of Tom McCallum – Shirlaws Coaching] [From today’s newsletter:] Reserve Yours Here Hugh has …

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. …

Merry Christmas!

Something to think about in the New Year: I was always searching for something, some sort of higher truth or state of being that always …

"Outrageous Fortune": Why "Culture" In Business Matters.

[When companies get too successful to fast, this often happens…] Does this ever happen to you? A person that you’ve known forever, maybe since you …

"Entrepreneurship is the great metaphor that will govern the twenty first century. And if it isn't, God help us all."

Thanks so much to Babson President, Dr. Kerry Healy (Mitt Romney’s former Lt. Governor of Massachusetts) to come by my “I’m Not Delusional” show and …

Yes, "Atmospherics" do matter.

[An early “Atmospheric” of my own, as it were, c. 1993. Click on image to enlarge etc.] A fascinating article in Harvard Business Review about …

Mindset Cartoon

[Originally sent out in today’s newsletter etc.] There’s a reason that I put mindset at the center of this universe. A person’s mindset has a …

Notes On Office Art

[First published, Sept. 2009] Recently on Twitter, I wrote: Art that brightens up the office vs Art that brightens up the home. Two different vibes …

"CultureMail": gapingvoid's New Secret Weapon

Jason and I were thinking, if people like our daily newsletter so much, it would be awesome to take what we’ve learned from that, and …

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