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Nothing Beats Competition
If we didn’t have rivals, there’d be no losing. There’d be no winning either. Because there’d be no competition. And while that seems like an …
If the Glove Don’t Fit, You Must Acquit
OJ Simpson passed away this week of cancer. He was a man who had everything fame and fortune had to offer, and pretty much lost …
Boeing Knows What It Needs to Do—So Do It. Change the Culture.
This post was authored by Gapingvoid CEO, Jason Korman, and originally featured in Barron’s The latest reports about Boeing make this clear: Investors haven’t seen …
Eclipsed by Meaning
Starting in 1940s post war Paris, the “Existentialism” philosophical movement became all the rage, soon spreading globally led by big names like Jean-Paul Satre and …
Are you playing half-court tennis?
During a recent interview over on the Dwarkesh Patel channel, Professor Sarah CM Paine (who teaches Geopolitics over at The US Naval War College) gave …
Why We’re Measuring the Wrong Thing
Apparently, we were a lot happier last year than we are this year. At least that’s what the studies say, (and we all know they’re …
Why Certainty is a Red Flag
This post is an idea inspired by the Dr Pippa Malmgren interview over at the Infinite Loops Podcast #167. According to Dr Malmgren, because certainty …
Daniel Kahneman’s Legacy: the Myth of Reason
For the last couple of centuries, ever since the Enlightenment (and even well before that), we’ve been enamored with the idea of being ruled by …
Belonging at Scale
Belonging at scale is an age-old problem. When your company is just a wee startup with a few people renting desks in a coworking space, …
Metaspeak about Metaspeak
There was a lovely trick that Gary Trudeau often used in his early Doonesbury cartoons.He would have the characters (Mike Doonesbury, BD, the Yale Admissions …
The Power of Starting Small
Over on Instagram, fellow culture nerd, Nick Smoot, made an interesting comment about organizational culture. “Recently, I listened to a @nytimes podcast about companies forcing …
Do you have an incentives problem?
If, like Boeing, you’ve had a recent series of PR disasters due to internal oversights, what do you do? You decide to tweak your incentives …
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