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What makes you amazing?
It was always Steve Jobs’ mantra: “Let’s make a dent in the universe”. I liked that phrase so much, I incorporated it into the 2004 Hughtrain …
In The Pursuit of Relevance
What does it mean to be relevant today? We live and work in an era of digital Darwinism, where technology and society are evolving away …
How To Profit From Talking
Transparent communication is a great idea. It’s also a profitable one. Transparency reduces the variation in your workforce. That’s fancy business-speak for: people do better …
Behavior Is Contagious
Emotion and behavior are contagious. Humans are programmed to copy, we see this in the way fashion, names, your favorite internet meme and yes, happiness spread. On …
The New Global Power
Fun fact: we’re just over 50% in women to men here at Gapingvoid Culture Science© Group. Kind of like the United States: the women outnumber the …
Success Is A Team Sport
Thanks for all the great comments about last week’s Bill Gates email. We really appreciate it. I think if we’ve learned one thing this last decade, is …
Curiosity Is as Important as Intelligence
“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.” – William Samuel Johnson Curiosity used to be thought of as a …
Why Being Great Isn’t Good Enough
The Netflix series, Chef’s Table, is on the face of it, stories about great chefs their, food and their restaurants. What makes those stories so compelling is …
“Without Love I am Nothing”
True story: This line came out of an original drawing I gave to Bill Gates, the first time I ever visited Microsoft campus in Redmond. I …
Why every business needs entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurial mindset is still misunderstood by many non-entrepreneurs. It is really a truth seeking, growth focused mental model that is fixated getting things done. Not just …
Blaze your own trail
The famous Long Island band, The Stray Cats got their breakout moment in 1980, when on a whim, they sold all their stuff and flew to London, …
Innovation is the sincerest form of flattery
Don’t worry: you’re not the first one to have a really creative idea that’s mostly someone else’s idea with a few tweaks. That’s innovation. For …
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