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businesses don't create value
It’s far too easy to just think of businesses in the abstract, as this “thing”, this machine, that just runs on autopilot, creating shareholder value …
our life is so perfect
The Internet broke a few days ago when it was suddenly announced that Hipster Barbie was quitting. What? No more “pure, authentic living” Instagram posts from …
the truth will set you free
“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” – James A. Garfield It’s easy to tell ourselves it isn’t that …
Great Job
How do you express gratitude in a business context in a way that isn’t cheesy, creepy or disingenuous? In a world where platitudes are the …
Abundance Begins With Gratitude
When you have enough, you are thankful. When you are thankful, you have enough. A friend of gapingvoid, Peter Diamandis, founder of the ‘X-prize‘, wrote a book entitled …
7 Things That Will Destroy Us
This was a very astute observation by Gandhi, we thought it would make a great print. It’s funny how, no matter how much we learn, …
Opportunity
This is the human condition… We all want to do more, make more money, have more to show for our efforts. And we all also …
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 …
The secret to innovation
Having spent a good part of last week at the Dpharm Disruptive Innovations to Advance Clinical Trials Conference, in Boston, we came away with some …
Self actualized employees
Not everybody on your team is going to be super successful. Not everyone is going to be a unicorn. But that shouldn’t stop you from …
Become the company you would want to do business with.
There’s a wonderful Chinese word, “De”, which loosely means “Virtue” or “Integrity”. Of course, it means SO MUCH MORE than that. “De” is a very …
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 …
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