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The battle of hearts is what wins wars
The Roman Civil war came to a climax when Julius Caesar defeated Pompey The Great at The Battle of Pharsalus. On paper, Pompey should’ve won the …
Make Your Impossible Dream a Future Reality
Some people wake us up. They bring us a new idea or a new way to do things. They challenge us to think differently, they …
Truth to Power
How many meetings have you walked out of and thought to yourself, that was a bunch of old white guys blowing smoke up …
Happy New Year!
Let’s reevaluate love today. Love is the thing that pushes us to succeed. Love is a thing that we have to feel for ourselves, for …
The Secret To Finding Joy
As the holidays swing round again, this year the idea of “Joy To The World” has never been more needed. And joy is a powerful idea. …
Intellectual Best Practices
The great anti-establishment Australian publisher, Claire Lehmann was recently lambasting the big-city American intelligentsia for their lack of intellectual diversity: “The pressure to conform exists everywhere but …
Fewer Moving Parts
Everybody loves Steely Dan. At least, every middle-aged, American white dude from the suburbs loves Steely Dan. For anyone who went to college in the 70s-80s, …
The “Kind of Blue” Effect
In pop music, there is a curve. “Easy-Listening” on one end of the curve (Barry Manilow, Kenny G, Billy Joel, etc) and on the other, we …
The seven, ten, twelve, habits of successful leaders
It’s a funny thing about leadership. By definition, it’s one of the most important roles on the planet. Your job is fundamentally about spreading …
Go figure it out
“I figured it out. You figure it out.” One of my favorite quotes was told to me by an old friend, Austin Kleon. He was talking …
Gapingvoid goes to Hollywood
One of the great things about our consulting engagements is that the effect of our work carries on long after we “leave the building”. A few …
Tony, thank you for delivering Wow
The sad news was all over the media this weekend: Former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh passed away under pretty awful circumstances. We are gutted. A big …
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