We deliver a real, human, emotional, immersive connection to work, by designing a more meaningful culture.
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What’s your team’s fulcrum? What’s your team’s rock? Can you tell the difference? You sure? bit.ly/4kcXGW7
Most people think culture is something that just… happens. But as fabulous folks over at @EpochOpinion point out, culture is a direct reflection of its leader. Cultures often suck because leaders don’t understand that behavior spreads through observation and copying.
Want to run a better company? Pay attention to how you’re interacting with the people around you and the behaviors they are copying from you.
@JanJekielek, @JoePolish, @DrBenjaminHardy, we’d love your take on this: How much of organizational dysfunction is really just a leader's unresolved personal dysfunction playing out at scale?
Your Corporate Culture Is Broken. If You Want Answers, Look in the Mirror.
"Corporate America has a culture problem. It isn’t a lack of mission statements, employee surveys, diversity programs, or HR initiatives."
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We'd push back on that, @raehanbobby. Culture is designed from the top, but brought to life from the bottom. Leaders set the vision but employees are the ones who turn it into reality. Culture is a top-down responsibility that requires bottom-up participation.
Um, this is terrifying. And we write when we’re frightened: bit.ly/4BkBKi2
.@dgrobinson, who worked on OpenAI’s safety team, resigned from the company this week. “I believe we need to look deeper than specific rules or new laws. We need to talk about culture,” he writes: theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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In the long run, company culture is what makes or breaks your business.
If you're a leader lucky enough to have people who believe deeply in what they're doing, your job isn't to squeeze every last drop out of that belief. It's to build an organization worthy of it. bit.ly/4jpvxuG
Arab philosopher and historian Ibn Khaldun has a pro tip for any business owners out there: Don’t let success make your team soft. bit.ly/4jmiSIZ
Without the meaning chain, there is no kill chain. More on what we mean here: bit.ly/4dGXUAV
Authority and influence are two very different status games.
Authority comes from rank. People listen to you because you have a fancy title. Influence comes from admiration. People listen to you because you’ve earned their attention, not because they are obligated to give it to you.
That’s a far more powerful position to be in. Bosses tell you what to do. Role models make you WANT to do it. And change only lasts if people are motivated to do it, not mandated.
When your labor belongs to someone else, it can start to feel like your life does too. One of the best remedies to this ache comes from @RitzCarlton: bit.ly/3Uiz185
Today’s blog connects the dots between @priyaparker’s two books, The Art of Gathering and The Art of Fighting. In our view, the art of fighting IS the art of gathering. More here: bit.ly/3UdpDCC
Most companies discover culture problems the way homeowners discover termites: after something starts collapsing.
CEOs, we know you’re busy. But you better carve out time for your people. Ignore their subtle signs long enough and eventually you’ll have to rebuild the whole house.
7 Quiet Signs Your Company Culture Is in Trouble
Read more: entrepreneur.com/building-a-…
Conveniently for any leader trying to transform their organization, behavior is contagious.
One person changes their mindset. Someone notices how that shifts in their behavior and thinks, huh, I like that. I want to be more like that. Someone else notices and joins in. Next thing you know, you have an entirely different culture. Sometimes planting one tiny seed changes the whole garden.
Most people try to change their behavior by white-knuckling it. Grit your teeth. Push through. Try harder next time.
The research says that's backwards.
Behavior isn't primarily driven by willpower. It's driven by what you believe about yourself, what you believe about the task, and what you believe about your capacity to sit with discomfort.
Carol Dweck's work on mindset showed that people who believed willpower was a limited resource actually behaved as if it were — running out of steam, losing control. People who believed it wasn't, didn't. Same brain. Different belief. Different outcome.
That's the leverage point.
You don't change behavior by fighting yourself. You change it by examining the beliefs that make the old behavior feel necessary in the first place. The urge to check the phone, skip the workout, break the promise — those aren't willpower failures. They're attempts to escape a feeling.
Change the belief about the feeling, and the behavior follows.
Beliefs aren't facts. They're tools. And when you understand how they work, you can set them aside when they're unhelpful and replace them with better ones.
Let’s be honest. Positive people are pretty annoying, right?
Who the hell do they think they are? Don’t they know how hard life is? How tiring it is? How much it takes from us? And they have the audacity to be optimistic?
Wankers.
Though there’s one wanker in particular we’ve got our eye on: bit.ly/4zFYOpZ
Provided your initial mental model isn’t horribly divorced from reality, the more you fail, the closer you get to succeeding. Proof: bit.ly/4zgXCJf
Politics is a people's business. The real magic often happens outside of the chamber. It happens in the corridors, over lunch, maybe over brandy and cigars after a weekend game of tennis in the Hamptons. If the chamber is the court, these are the locker rooms. But that’s where games are actually won. bit.ly/4i0zDbn
We’re #hiring.
Gapingvoid is looking for a Demand Generation Lead.
Strategic enough to see the throughline.
Technical enough to build the system.
Human enough to earn attention.
Driven enough to ship, test, and improve.
They’ll use HubSpot, audience insight, targeted campaigns, and thoughtful outreach to create qualified conversations.
Remote, US-based | 3–5 years of experience | Eastern Time overlap preferred
Know anyone who might be interested? Tag them, send this their way, or share it with your network.
Apply here: bit.ly/4rK0FHs
#DemandGeneration #B2BMarketing #GrowthMarketing
The guy who tries too hard to get the date never will. Be hungry, not thirsty.
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Give people something to believe in. It's marketing rocket fuel.
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We’re stuck in a world where everyone can sound like they believe in something. So how do you know who actually does? bit.ly/4hwMj8q
