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Love it or leave it

There’s an increasingly popular management idea of building a successful company, one successful team at a time. A team-centric org, as it were. Amazon is …

We buy belief in our own human potential

Again, Elon Musk nails it. We don’t buy gadgets. We buy beliefs. We don’t buy trips to Mars, we buy belief in our own human …

you don't have to own the ocean to sail on it

You don’t need to own it to use it

Lots of folks think they need to own the platform, not just be able to use it. Sure, you can try to be like Zuk, …

Is your purpose to be “crushing it” all the time?

If one’s Facebook feed is anything to go buy, it seems the whole point of existence is to be “crushing it” all the time. To …

If you look after them

They say the secret to being successful is to (A) have a great product and (B) love your customer. Simple enough… But you can make it …

Albert Einstein’s Theory of Happiness

From NPR- October, 2017: Somebody did buy happiness. Albert Einstein’s theory of happiness sold at auction. Someone paid $1.3 million for a piece of paper. …

Imagination Is Life

Between the death of Isaac Newton and the birth of Albert Einstein, the most important physicist was the Scot, James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwell’s Equations are …

Set yourself free

I always like to think we have two selves… The first is our potential self. That’s the person we would be if we would …

I don't need you to come up with new ideas

Make the old the “new and improved”

We all have heard THAT definition of insanity a hundred times. The problem is that many people just wish they lived in an alternate reality. Do …

People are organic

For well over a decade, Gapingvoid friend Jon Husband has been preaching the idea of “Wirearchy”… i.e. in the future, companies will start organizing themselves around centralized …