The Curious Engineer

Gapingvoid

2017–2026

1,417 posts

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October 2026

  1. The Paradox of Progress
  2. The Lost Art of Nerding Out
  3. Stop Waiting For A Sign
  4. Don’t Confuse the Trophy with the Triumph
  5. The World is Not A Beta Test
  6. The Dark Side of Devotion
  7. When Winning Becomes Losing
  8. Without The Meaning Chain, There Is No Kill Chain
  9. Ritz-Carlton Was Right. Karl Marx Was Wrong.
  10. Agree On How To Disagree
  11. The Audacity of Optimism
  12. Wrong Way, Right Direction
  13. The Work Between the Work

September 2026

  1. Be Hungry, Not Thirsty
  2. When Everyone Sounds Like a Genius
  3. Maps Are Models, Models Are Maps
  4. Warren Buffett’s Final Investment
  5. What We Can Learn From A Six-Dollar Chicken
  6. Love Thy Competitor
  7. The Hard Part Is Loving The Hard Part
  8. The Iron Law Of Excellence
  9. If It Belongs to Everybody, It Belongs to Nobody
  10. It’s The Meaning, Not The Mascot
  11. What Are You Laboring For?
  12. If Nobody’s Pissed Off, Try Harder
  13. Be Emotional
  14. If There’s A Wii, There’s A Way

August 2026

  1. In Defense Of Vertical Drinking
  2. It Was Dolly’s World, We Were Just Living In It
  3. It’s What Happens Around The Coffee Cup That’s Interesting
  4. Find The Side Door
  5. Denormalizing Hypernormalization
  6. The First Tool Humans Ever Built
  7. Nudge or Sludge?
  8. “That’s What The Money Is For,” He Said, Mistakenly
  9. The Price Of Waiting
  10. Build Yourself A Fortress
  11. When Control Creates Chaos
  12. Ridiculous Is The Future
  13. Power Corrupts, Then Again So Does Gravity

July 2026

  1. All Maps Lie
  2. Show Don’t Sell
  3. Yesterday +1
  4. You’re Not Stuck *In* Traffic, You *Are* Traffic
  5. Today’s Clever is Tomorrow’s Cringe
  6. Symbols Beat Slogans
  7. An Ode To Giving Up
  8. How to Survive Your Own Death
  9. Culture Bank: Insufficient Funds
  10. The Problem With Good Intentions
  11. The ROI Of Fireworks
  12. How To Win The Blame Game

June 2026

  1. The Minotaur Was Never The Problem
  2. History Doesn’t Use Cruise Control
  3. Why People Really, Really Like Using The Word, “Transformation”
  4. Don’t Be ‘Normal Spongebob’
  5. A Story Is Only As Good As The Reason For Telling It
  6. The Joy of Seeing
  7. Beware of Best Practices
  8. Winning Isn’t For Everyone
  9. Be A Butcher
  10. Nobody Is Working This Thursday
  11. What Happens When A Legend Forgets Who It Is?

May 2026

  1. The UK Is Running On Outdated Software
  2. Why Do We Keep Killing The Golden Goose?
  3. What Memorial Day Teaches Us About The Nature Of Sacrifice
  4. What Made Alexander So Great
  5. How to Control What You Can’t Control
  6. Death by 1000 Optimizations
  7. If Resumes are Dead, What Takes Their Place?
  8. Inform. Educate. Entertain.
  9. When In Doubt, Swim Upstream.
  10. When Airlines Remembered What Really Fuels their Business

April 2026

  1. Colorless, Shapeless Orb
  2. Going Electric
  3. America’s Founding Mother
  4. The First Rule of Fight Club
  5. The Moon was Never the Point
  6. What Viking Cuisine Can Tell Us About Innovation
  7. Mommy, Where Does Meaning Come From?

March 2026

  1. You Scratch My Back, I’ll Scratch Yours
  2. Meliora
  3. Aim
  4. Who Knows What
  5. Beyond Glamour: The Staples Baddie
  6. What the 19th Century Socialite & Modern Day Host Teach Us About Leadership
  7. Go Your Own Way
  8. How to MacGyver It
  9. Scripts Not Required
  10. The Market for Something to Believe In

February 2026

  1. Omoiyari
  2. Context is King
  3. Sanctuary
  4. The Case for Heresy
  5. Dancing with Your Default Mode
  6. Fox or Hedgehog?
  7. $12 Billion Later
  8. Elegance Compounds
  9. What 20,000 Snails & One Trader Joe’s Bag Share

January 2026

  1. Are you Bowing to An Empty Throne?
  2. How You Say It
  3. They Won’t Build You a Statue
  4. Just the Sprinkles on Top
  5. In Defense of the Long Way
  6. The Value of Values

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December 2025

  1. “You too?”
  2. The Start Is Always Hardest
  3. The Workaround to Murphy’s Law
  4. Why the Sun Always Wins
  5. He Never Repeated a Formula, Not Even His Own
  6. The Case for Crazy
  7. He Just Dragged His Fingers Through the Sand

November 2025

  1. Thank you, shitshow
  2. Just Fall
  3. Boundaries Beget Belonging
  4. Care is a Risk. Do It Anyway.
  5. Nobody Votes for Bad Bread
  6. Culture vs. Command
  7. Fighters versus Fakers
  8. Innovation is Forgiveness
  9. Warrior in the Garden or a Gardener in War?

October 2025

  1. The Hydra Problem
  2. We are All Spies, We Just Don’t Know It
  3. Take Off Your Shirt
  4. When never enough is no longer enough
  5. The Two Headed Horse
  6. Ben, Jerry, and the Myth of Company Values
  7. Life is a Feast, Not a Recipe
  8. What the Tea Leaves Show Us About Leadership
  9. Script or Sprezzatura?
  10. The Antidote for “Cornflake Brain”

September 2025

  1. Creativity: The Antidote to Elite Oversupply
  2. God is in the Gaps
  3. It’s the “And”
  4. Going Upstream
  5. Why Does Mattering… Matter?
  6. Infinite Game or Bottomless Pit?
  7. What Leaders Can Learn From Type-A Personalities
  8. The Power of A Word
  9. When Does It Become Meaningful

August 2025

  1. The Knowing of Not Knowing
  2. The Problem with Pilgrimages
  3. Two Words that Built Apollo
  4. The Art of Saying Less
  5. Striving or Boredom, Your Call
  6. All Signal No Substance

July 2025

  1. You’re Looking for Help in the Wrong Place
  2. The Most Important Word in the English Language
  3. Leaders Don’t Get to Hide
  4. It’s Not You, It’s Your Frame
  5. Welcome to the “New Agility”
  6. What Ugly Dolls Teach Us
  7. The Psychology of Making it Official
  8. Humans are the New Luxury Goods

June 2025

  1. Throw Away the Scales
  2. Father’s Day Nearly Didn’t Exist
  3. It’s the Workarounds, Stupid
  4. 500,000 New Filmmakers Nobody Will Watch
  5. AgriCULTURE
  6. Just in Case You Thought Life was Fair

May 2025

  1. Fight For your Right – to Focus
  2. The Doomers Quest for Meaning
  3. Mediocrity is Infectious
  4. Prepare for the Post Work World
  5. We Are Labubu
  6. Your 48-70% Perfect Friend
  7. Myths Save Lives
  8. A Little Folding of the Hands to Sleep
  9. What Civilization Can Learn from Pizza
  10. Doubling Down on Disaster

April 2025

  1. The Price of Utopia
  2. Seek the Flow
  3. Duty: The Killer App
  4. How to Predict the Future
  5. Quality Beats Quantity
  6. The Men Who Cry Wolf
  7. How Railroad Timetables Started World War One
  8. Symbol Warfare 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥

March 2025

  1. Pockets of Belfast
  2. Were Your Managers Managing Your Decline?
  3. Your Life Isn’t Meant To Be Balanced, It’s Meant to Be Whole
  4. Stack Your Cues & Win
  5. A Tale of Two Cities
  6. Stop Making Art When You Need Weapons
  7. It’s What Goes Unsaid That’s Interesting
  8. What Classic Literature & AI Have in Common

February 2025

  1. A Parliament of Whores
  2. All for the Want of a Nail
  3. The Door is Not the Problem
  4. Your Critics Make You
  5. Great Ideas Die. Memes Live Forever
  6. The Theseus Paradox
  7. Loss is the Only Constant

January 2025

  1. From DEI to dei
  2. The Curse of Easy Money
  3. More “Be,” Less “Do”
  4. The Myth of Maslow
  5. No One’s in Charge
  6. Is Your OODA Loop Broken?

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December 2024

  1. White Christmas, White Space
  2. Mastery Isn’t Enough
  3. History Rhyming Yet Again
  4. Beyond Atoms & The Void
  5. Stop being so right all the time
  6. Desire Speaks A Different Language

November 2024

  1. A Radical Act
  2. Help! How Do I Cook a Turkey?
  3. Get Out of The Way
  4. Hyperreal is the New Real
  5. What Matters Not What’s Easy
  6. It’s Not That Hard
  7. What Actually Survives
  8. Mommy, Where Does Money Come From?
  9. There’s Always A Storm Coming
  10. The Scariest Place to Be

October 2024

  1. Stop telling me about yourself
  2. The Story Behind Your Story
  3. A DNA Test that Matters
  4. Why Being Called Worthless Can Change Everything
  5. The Secret Ingredient? It’s Not the Food
  6. A Use It or Lose It Species
  7. Gen Z Isn’t the Problem
  8. How Outrageous Ideas Change the World (for better or worse)
  9. They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work
  10. Elves are Overrated

September 2024

  1. Corruption is Contagious
  2. In Defense of Red Tape
  3. Culture is Purpose Not Place
  4. How to Live Through Civilizational Collapse and Still Have Nice Things
  5. What’s Your If-Then Loop?
  6. Allergic to Mediocrity
  7. Ideas That Don’t Die
  8. When Small Becomes Tall
  9. The Psychology of Sugar Water
  10. What If Work Loved Us Back?

August 2024

  1. Try not to have a good time… this is supposed to be educational
  2. Better to Burn out Than Fade Away
  3. Simplicity is Complexity Resolved
  4. All leaders are politicians. Not all politicians are leaders
  5. The Croesus Trap
  6. What Signal Are You Sending?
  7. Environment is Leadership
  8. Meaning: the Ultimate Olympic Sport
  9. Mastery as Marketing
  10. Unexpected Lessons from the 50-yard Line

July 2024

  1. The Domino Effect of ‘Just this Once’
  2. Singapore: An Exercise in Creating Culture
  3. The Social Objectification of Kamala
  4. Eno or Beethoven?
  5. The Best of the Greeks?
  6. The Hell That Is Good Intentions
  7. All Culture is Kintsugi Culture
  8. A Culture Crash?
  9. How Formula 1 Will Save the Free World
  10. Business Lessons from Atticus Finch
  11. Don’t Cede the Lead
  12. The Second Job of a Leader

June 2024

  1. How To Create A Movement
  2. The Art of Opting Out
  3. The Clues to Success
  4. The Case for Cheap Bets
  5. Feelings Are Who We Are
  6. Half In Is All Out
  7. The Machines Don’t Care
  8. The Cultures that Actually Win
  9. What Leaders Can Learn from Barbie
  10. The Greatest Existential Threat

May 2024

  1. Craics in the System
  2. The Antidote to Suffering
  3. Filling in the Narrative Gaps
  4. Some things never change
  5. It’s Not Just a Bag
  6. Why Commanding Excellence Never Works
  7. The Power of Framing
  8. Staying Power
  9. The Trouble of Unmet Needs
  10. What Story Are You Telling Yourself?
  11. What We Can Learn from a Village Postman

April 2024

  1. All Contracts are Psychological
  2. Where’s Your 46 Cent Chip?
  3. Find Your Art
  4. A Deep Well of Motivation
  5. How to Solve the “Willie Nelson” Problem
  6. Nothing Beats Competition
  7. If the Glove Don’t Fit, You Must Acquit
  8. Boeing Knows What It Needs to Do—So Do It. Change the Culture.
  9. Eclipsed by Meaning
  10. Are you playing half-court tennis?
  11. Why We’re Measuring the Wrong Thing
  12. Why Certainty is a Red Flag

March 2024

  1. Daniel Kahneman’s Legacy: the Myth of Reason
  2. Belonging at Scale
  3. Metaspeak about Metaspeak
  4. The Power of Starting Small
  5. Do you have an incentives problem?
  6. Are You Fishing from an Aquarium
  7. A Gruesome Paradox
  8. Failure is Like Success
  9. Celebrating Carol Kaye
  10. What Kim Kardashian Can Teach Us About Reality
  11. Winning Starts with A-Players

February 2024

  1. Are You Keeping Your Word?
  2. Who Decides What’s Symbolic?
  3. Why Loneliness Can Kill Us
  4. The Internet is Iteration
  5. How Many Volts?
  6. The Sweetest Most Important Sound
  7. Simple is Beautiful
  8. The Power of Situationships
  9. The Right Way is the Hard Way
  10. What’s Your Gift?
  11. Buckle Up

January 2024

  1. Don’t Roll the Dice
  2. The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions
  3. The Geek Way
  4. Life is Not Like Formula Fiction
  5. Don’t Hold the Drama
  6. Stop Telling People What To Do
  7. Humanity isn’t a Hack
  8. The Oppressive Culture of Air Travel
  9. The Secret Behind Successful New Year’s Resolutions

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December 2023

  1. The Message is the Message
  2. Show Me the Incentives
  3. The Power of Changing Your Mind
  4. Today’s Hottest Job
  5. Must We Hate Our Jobs?
  6. Nobody Likes Playing Tennis with the Net Down
  7. The Silent Killer

November 2023

  1. You Can’t Fake It
  2. The Psychology of Scaling Culture
  3. Get Off the Hamster Wheel
  4. The Secret to Happiness
  5. Work Hard, Play Harder
  6. What Samurai Teach Us About Service
  7. If It Sounds Too Good To Be True

October 2023

  1. You Don’t Need More Money
  2. Engineers Beef with Advertising
  3. Go Ahead, Embrace Vulnerability
  4. Why Be Hardcore?
  5. Symbols: Your Secret Leverage
  6. What Mad Men Teaches Us On Creativity
  7. The Person or the Culture?
  8. How to Create an Unstoppable Movement
  9. I Would Rather Give You a Kidney
  10. Love Made Visible
  11. Don’t Kid Yourself

September 2023

  1. Ego: Just Like Dust in the Eyes
  2. What Space10 and the Beatles Share
  3. Going from Idea to Impact
  4. Own It
  5. Too Big to Fail?

August 2023

  1. Make the Invisible, Visible
  2. How to Have More Meaningful Meetings
  3. Stop Climbing, Start Surfing
  4. Not Everyone Wants Kinder and Gentler
  5. Does Pessimism Serve You?
  6. Thinking about death?
  7. Leadership is Communication
  8. Avoid the Sharks
  9. How Many Reality Gems Do You Have?
  10. Inspiration is Rocket Fuel
  11. Are You A Meaning Making Machine?
  12. Where Are Your Manners?
  13. Jobless Work is Joyless Work
  14. Why Nothing is Everything

July 2023

  1. The One Tech to Rule Them All
  2. Pink is the New Black
  3. Is Adulthood Dying?
  4. Don’t Be A Dictator
  5. How to Be More Interesting
  6. When Eating Your Words Pays Off
  7. The Evil in Pity
  8. Why the ✌️wasn’t invented by the hippies
  9. We’re Calling BS
  10. Nations Are Stories

June 2023

  1. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
  2. Have You Heard?
  3. People Are Not Pawns
  4. The Secret of Influence
  5. How to Have Authority
  6. Why Stories Run the World
  7. Where Do Insights Come From?
  8. Someone Should Write a Screenplay
  9. Small Ideas, Because It’s Worth It
  10. Spontaneity is a Meticulously Prepared Art
  11. We Have No Money, We’ll Have to Think
  12. How Much Dumb Tax Are You Paying?

May 2023

  1. What Stands the Test of Time
  2. When a Butterfly Flaps Its Wings
  3. Have We Opened Pandora’s Box?
  4. Stuck in the Middle With You
  5. Totemic Power
  6. What Darwin Can Teach Us About Business
  7. Do More, Think Less
  8. Let’s Farm Some Water
  9. Innovation isn’t Orthodox
  10. Freaky and I Know It
  11. The Art of Decision Making

April 2023

  1. The Truth About Yawning
  2. The Curse of the Best
  3. Which Hill Will You Die On?
  4. What Appears in the Void?
  5. Sex, Lies, and Millennials
  6. The Lost Art of Oration
  7. What is your practice?
  8. Public Enemy #1
  9. When Humans Play God
  10. Fancy a riot?

March 2023

  1. Why You Should Hit Delete More Often
  2. Which Status Game Are You Playing?
  3. Why are We so Miserable?
  4. If You Design for Average, That’s All You’ll Be
  5. It doesn’t pay to be virtuous: do it anyway
  6. Potato Famine 2.0?
  7. Trapped in an echo chamber?
  8. Happiness: You Get to Decide
  9. Measure Twice, Cut Once
  10. How H-town got its Hustle
  11. When It’s Not Just a Game
  12. How Evil Spreads

February 2023

  1. What’s Your Latest Bad Idea?
  2. Feed the Wolf?
  3. What Comes First, Action or Courage?
  4. Does Slow and Steady Win the Race?
  5. Want to be Noticed?
  6. How Much is Too Much
  7. Fact Vs. Fiction: It’s Not About the Truth
  8. What Does It Mean to Be Human?
  9. Kids, What Are They Good For?
  10. FOMO for Fun and Profit

January 2023

  1. Scaling Innovation: Is Necessity the Mother of Invention?
  2. Have you liked the egg?
  3. The End of the World is the Beginning
  4. Missing Out?
  5. Regrets, I’ve Had a Few
  6. The Next Picasso?
  7. No Emotion, No Justice
  8. Machines vs. Humans
  9. When Life Gives you Lemons, Make… Beer?
  10. Odds Are You Won’t Be on Top for Long
  11. Where’s the Love Gone?
  12. Is No Plan the Best Plan?

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December 2022

  1. Should We Bring Back the Jester?
  2. A Christmas Truce
  3. Conversations that Matter
  4. Optimistic Nihilism: Tastes Like Chicken
  5. Why is the World Cup Such a Big Deal?
  6. Trying not to Try
  7. Why 80% of Mergers & Acquisitions Fail
  8. When Nothing Means Everything
  9. Chess but with Infinite Pieces
  10. What a Chicken Chain Can Teach Us About Culture

November 2022

  1. Creativity: It’s a Muscle
  2. Why Great Leaders Are Always Training Their Replacement
  3. It’s Not About the Turkey
  4. More Dancing, Less Box Checking
  5. Success: More Grit or Talent?
  6. Innovation is Reinvention
  7. Life is About More than Happiness
  8. Be Water, My Friend
  9. Lies: Building on a Foundation of Sand
  10. Remote Terminations: What not to do
  11. Don’t Bet Against Twitter
  12. Nothing Lasts Forever
  13. Show Me the Data

October 2022

  1. Wanted: CEOs with People Skills
  2. Social Cop-Ye-ing
  3. Would You Be Missed If You Were Gone?
  4. We Contain Multitudes
  5. Driving Off the Glass Cliff
  6. Listen Like a Trampoline
  7. Big Speech Coming Up? Here are a few tips
  8. Marshall Goldsmith on the Essentials of Leadership
  9. All the Previous You’s
  10. How to Avoid Driving Into a Lake
  11. How to Get Ideas to Spread
  12. Myth Busting with Mark Blyth
  13. Whether you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right
  14. What Hurricanes Teach Us about Humanity
  15. Putting Culture First: Just Do It
  16. Cleese on Creativity
  17. Who Do You Belong To?

September 2022

  1. Slashing Rules That Don’t Matter
  2. Courage Is Calling by Ryan Holiday
  3. Sarah Kauss on How I Built This: It’s More Than Just a Water Bottle
  4. Dancing up a storm…in a tea cup
  5. We know you’re winging it
  6. Core Human Motivations: Thoughts Inspired by Kunal Shah
  7. What you need to know about ‘quiet quitting’.
  8. You Can’t Go Far Without A North Star
  9. How to be a great leader: Eight Lessons from Queen Elizabeth
  10. Houston…we have a problem
  11. Your #1 Employee Perk
  12. Why Nobody Understands You

August 2022

  1. Massive Transformation Is Indirect
  2. Are You Leading?
  3. I Hereby Order You To Take PTO
  4. It’s the Economy, Stupid
  5. It’s Why They’re Called Sheep
  6. 8 Strengths of Transformational Cultures
  7. Man Plans, God Laughs…or Does She?

July 2022

  1. Understanding The Paradox of Success
  2. ? The Secret Key to Greatness
  3. Why great leaders are scarce and cherished
  4. Getting Turned On Requires More Than You Think
  5. The ONE Choice All Fulfilled People Make
  6. Follow the Yellowbri…Road to Greatness
  7. Why Every Business Needs Powerful Storytelling

June 2022

  1. Digital Transformation isn’t what you think…
  2. How $.99 can transform your life!
  3. What does the future of work look like?
  4. The first rule of management is gold

May 2022

  1. The Quest for Our Highest Self
  2. How Meaning Transforms Work
  3. The recipe for fearless leadership
  4. Every Window Is An Opportunity

April 2022

  1. Elon: The King of Influence

March 2022

  1. How To Be A Visionary
  2. Without This We Are Nothing
  3. Compassion Wins

February 2022

  1. The Outsiders
  2. What The Battle Of The Bulge Teaches Us

January 2022

  1. Metaverse Shmetaverse
  2. Why “Digital Transformation” isn’t really digital

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December 2021

  1. Fear is a sign you’re doing it right
  2. The Map is Not The Terrain
  3. How To Be Extraordinary

November 2021

  1. Nullum Crimen Sine Lege
  2. The Great Reassessment

October 2021

  1. Every Business Needs Entrepreneurs
  2. How To Build A Lasting Legacy
  3. Want to be a better human?

September 2021

  1. Rethink Your Core Values Now
  2. The Fifty-Year Window
  3. Fixing a Cultural Lemon

August 2021

  1. What We Learned From Chairman Mao About Company Culture
  2. The Future Is Extraterrestrial
  3. Great Strategies Are Simple
  4. How to stand out in virtual meetings + Free Download
  5. How culture revived post WWII Scotland
  6. Why Do We Need Stories?
  7. Why your hires look like you
  8. Succession is a nightmare

July 2021

  1. Lessons from the rainforest
  2. No Peril, No Reward
  3. Juggling Chainsaws – Brian E A “Beam” Maue PhD
  4. Who wants a Skittle?
  5. The Power of Culture
  6. How AI Generates a Competitive Advantage by Ash Fontana
  7. Give Love, Get Love
  8. The real reason we are racing to space
  9. Mindset Is Everything
  10. Change sucks, or does it?

June 2021

  1. The Three Big Business Problems
  2. The Main Engine Driving The Ship
  3. If In Doubt, Begin
  4. Does Consensus Matter?
  5. The Real Reason Culture Still Eats Strategy for Breakfast
  6. Take something ordinary and elevate it
  7. Get a job, any job – by Paul Catmur

May 2021

  1. Gratitude Is Power
  2. Why Study The Stoics – Ryan Holiday
  3. Finally, the secret to inclusion
  4. Excellence Now by Tom Peters
  5. The Mean Meme
  6. Trust Yourself by Melody Wilding
  7. Your Big Ideas Will Die Unless You Understand This
  8. We Chose This

April 2021

  1. Why Zigging Is The Enemy of Innovation
  2. Human Potential: Mars Style
  3. Culture Is Just Another Term For Leadership
  4. Kung Fu Lessons
  5. Partner with Entrepreneurs Inside & Out
  6. A Case Study in the Impact of Culture
  7. The best answers are not the obvious ones

March 2021

  1. RISK FORWARD: When Do You Do Your Best Work?
  2. Is CEO A Two Person Job?
  3. World Class or Bust
  4. Wishful Thinks
  5. At first, it’s a shock
  6. How To Be Different
  7. Are You Creating Culture Or Is It Creating You?
  8. Which team are you on?

February 2021

  1. Why Nerds Will Rule The World
  2. RISK FORWARD: Legacy, Satisfaction & Greatness
  3. How To Invent The Future
  4. Innovation is Cultural
  5. The Connection Between Super Bowl Ads and Company Culture
  6. Are you Seeking Redemption?
  7. Nobody Cares About You

January 2021

  1. How to design your future
  2. The battle of hearts is what wins wars
  3. Make Your Impossible Dream a Future Reality
  4. Truth to Power

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December 2020

  1. Happy New Year!
  2. The Secret To Finding Joy
  3. Intellectual Best Practices
  4. Fewer Moving Parts
  5. The “Kind of Blue” Effect
  6. The seven, ten, twelve, habits of successful leaders
  7. Go figure it out
  8. Gapingvoid goes to Hollywood

November 2020

  1. Tony, thank you for delivering Wow
  2. The secret to designing great cultures
  3. What Business Are You Actually In?
  4. Create or Die
  5. Veterans Day 2020
  6. What do you believe in?
  7. A Virus Worth Spreading

October 2020

  1. Which hill are you going to die on?
  2. Is your brand viral ready?
  3. Are you a pawn?
  4. Who are you, anyway?
  5. Always Open Self
  6. This Kind of Hard Work
  7. John, Paul, George, Ringo and Grit.
  8. Succession

September 2020

  1. The key to progress
  2. No Rules Netflix
  3. RBG & The Big Three
  4. Go big, go small, just go.
  5. The Hamptons are not Defensible Position by Mark Blyth
  6. Why Unconscious Bias Training Doesn’t Work
  7. A Story As Old As Time
  8. Looks are deceiving
  9. Meaning Is A Constellation
  10. The go-to guy vs. the here-already guy

August 2020

  1. The Secret Is Who Not How
  2. The Tyranny of “Back to School”
  3. Are You Rethinking What’s Important? Lots of people are!
  4. Don’t let them take away your crayons
  5. Diversity Soup by Dave Trott
  6. Nobody Told Me
  7. Slowly, Then All At Once
  8. Why doesn’t anyone know anything?
  9. The idea that ate you
  10. Are you built for the future?

July 2020

  1. When Does It Go Back To Normal?
  2. Welcome To The Culture War
  3. Return Of The Mac
  4. Jack of all trades, master of none – total tosh
  5. What if we eliminated all of the BS Jobs?
  6. “It’s not failure you should fear” by Rob Long
  7. How empathy won the beer wars
  8. We Only Control How We Respond – Ryan Holiday

June 2020

  1. Was it worth it?
  2. Are you just surviving?
  3. Remote Work as an Opportunity to Create a Positive and Compassionate Company Culture by Jo …
  4. This new book will help you become your future self
  5. Find Your True North
  6. Wanna turn back the clock?
  7. Feeling Depressed?
  8. Compassion Wins

May 2020

  1. The Post No-Life Era
  2. The Ambiguous Crisis – Dr. Keith Merron
  3. How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
  4. This Kind of Transformation: Dragged Kicking and Screaming
  5. Systems of Trust by Jeremy Epstein
  6. Fair Winds Do Not A Great Capitan Make
  7. You WILL be disrupted

April 2020

  1. Together, but not really
  2. Don’t Just Hope Things Improve
  3. Relevance Isn’t That Complicated.
  4. How’s It Feel To Be A Movie Star
  5. It Sure Beats Drowning!
  6. See The World With A Fresh Pair Of Eyes
  7. Springing Back To Life!
  8. Nurses Make The World Go Round – Share Your Stories!
  9. A New Remote Era Unfolds
  10. Love In The Time Of Coronavirus (free ebook download below)
  11. Spare Time is for Work?

March 2020

  1. Crisis and Creativity: Odd Bedfellows
  2. Living Through The Dry Season
  3. Leadership In The Time Of Coronavirus (free ebook download below)
  4. Culture Wall™ Power Hour
  5. Culture As An Emotional Landscape
  6. Whatever you do, don’t do this!
  7. Culture Must Be Designed
  8. How Picasso Dealt With Crisis
  9. BEWARE THE IDEAVIRUS
  10. A Copywriter’s Secret by Chris Worth
  11. The Art of Disruption – by Neil French
  12. Is this the burnout you signed up for?
  13. We Proved It. CEOs Who Embrace Culture Win!

February 2020

  1. The trick is there is no trick
  2. Why We Wrote “Angrynomics” – by Mark Blyth
  3. Two All Beef Patties, or Honor your Mother and Father?
  4. Managing Others? You Need To Declare Yourself by Marla Gottschalk
  5. Start-Up Mentality Syndrome
  6. The Fox Story by Joshua Benton
  7. How To Find Your Niche
  8. Lesson I’ve Learned by Tucker Max
  9. Why excellence is a moral act

January 2020

  1. Mojo For Sale
  2. Great Design for Everyone by Richard Moross
  3. It’s The Little Things
  4. DAVOS: The case for the meeting that everyone loves to hate. by David Brain.
  5. Make An Impossible Dream A Future Reality
  6. Celebrate Small Wins
  7. Walking the CEO Walk
  8. How Do You Recover Your Greatness?
  9. Inclusion Is Life Or Death
  10. The Wages of Charisma
  11. Love It or Lose It

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December 2019

  1. Love Is The Mission
  2. The Real Deal On Inclusion: It’s Not What You Think
  3. Is Everyone Working 100 Hour Weeks?
  4. Amazing Times
  5. Never Confuse Your Ego With Reality
  6. Pure Creativity vs Applied Creativity, by Dave Trott
  7. A story without emotion…isn’t.
  8. “More and better Pepeha, please” by Mark Earls
  9. Good ideas don’t care where they came from
  10. Beware SuperSexy
  11. Are you brushing your teeth, or going to Mars?
  12. I Quit The Fame Game To Build Something by Tucker Max
  13. Chances are you have one of these mindsets

November 2019

  1. ‘Tis more blessed to give than to receive
  2. Happiness matters
  3. The Glue Before Glue Is Needed – Brian E A “Beam” Maue PhD
  4. It Had To Be Finished by Wednesday
  5. The Key To Customer Love
  6. In Business, Nothing Ever Changes
  7. It’s Like That, And That’s The Way It Is. – by Eaon Pritchard
  8. Are you part of the Busy People Club?
  9. How do you balance freedom and responsibility?
  10. 8 Key Steps for Effective Strategic Decision Making by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
  11. What is the best way to guarantee success?
  12. The New Math: 5-1=6

October 2019

  1. How do you know if your new hire is a jerk?
  2. We Don’t Always Respect Our Own Strengths. We Need to Change That. by Marla Gottschalk
  3. Your “Why” Isn’t what you think it is
  4. Your struggle is real…be grateful
  5. What does real leadership mean?
  6. What Good Grub, Good Principles and Good Parenting have in common
  7. Imperfect Is A Superpower. – by David Wolstencroft
  8. Agency Is Key
  9. “We Are All Weird”
  10. “Not Knowing” is the Killer App
  11. The Boring Part of Creativity – by Tom Goodwin
  12. Rock & Roll Dreams
  13. Maybe Too Mammoth?
  14. Inclusion: Why it’s a competitive advantage.
  15. The Compliant Complaint
  16. Charisma: from Aristotle to WeWork
  17. The Search For Higher Meaning
  18. A Note to Collegiates
  19. Exactly Why Complexity Is The Enemy
  20. A Blast For The Better – Brian E A “Beam” Maue PhD
  21. How to Create Amazing Products

September 2019

  1. Public Virtue, Private Vice
  2. The Secret To Living Fully
  3. Everything you thought was right is wrong
  4. What Works and What Doesn’t by Steven Pressfield
  5. The Power of Oration
  6. The Only Secret to Success You Need to Know
  7. How To Avoid The Surrogation Trap
  8. Why you definitely need to tune out by Brian Solis
  9. It’s The Flame That Matters, Not The Carrier
  10. Vorsprung Durch Technik
  11. If you want to be successful create a culture of openness
  12. Post-Modern Diplomacy
  13. The confessions of feel good brands
  14. How Microsoft Did It
  15. How to thrive in love and in work – by Jennifer Petriglieri
  16. The Reality of Twitter Mobs

August 2019

  1. The “Te” of SoulCycle (or lack thereof)
  2. Nobody Knows Anything – By Bob Hoffman
  3. Gordian Knot = Culture
  4. Curiosity In Action
  5. Without trust you’re toast!
  6. The Toothpaste Problem
  7. Corporate Culture is shifting in front of our eyes
  8. Relentless Repetition – By Steve Clayton Chief Storyteller for Microsoft
  9. Is The Juice Worth The Squeeze
  10. The battle of hearts is what wins wars
  11. Why you shouldn’t be afraid to pivot
  12. The Rise of Digital Feudalism; Chances are, You’re a Serf – By Jeremiah Owyang
  13. Love your moments of doubt: they drive breakthroughs
  14. WAIT… YOU MEAN THERE ISN’T A TOOTH FAIRY?
  15. Scared of Success?
  16. Marketing and Shakespeare – A Pretentious Metaphor – by David Brain
  17. The secret to culture
  18. The best chance of making innovation actually work

July 2019

  1. Nothing Is Forever
  2. We all know gratitude IS the mother of virtues. Here’s why.
  3. Time Is The First Casualty Of Adult Life
  4. CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!
  5. Why Gender Diversity Matters To Making Your Business More Successful
  6. What the World Needs Now is a New Generation of Empathetic Leadership.
  7. Wanna Be A Billionaire?
  8. Isn’t it amazing that what was true for the Romans is still true today?
  9. The Noble Truth You Must Live
  10. Business Norms are Cultural Norms
  11. Where is our humanity?
  12. The Simplest Key To Success
  13. The Key To Being Competitive
  14. How A.I. will manage your health
  15. 7 Signs Your Job is a Poor Fit
  16. Become A Better You
  17. Why You Should Never Stop Learning
  18. Please Don’t Just Fake It
  19. Lest We Forget
  20. CULTure anyone?
  21. Culture Drives Results

June 2019

  1. The one thing you cannot afford to be stupid about
  2. The Space Between
  3. Do you think you know everything? JUST WAIT!
  4. Are you hiring leaders?
  5. Your Perfect Recipe
  6. We Talk About Engagement, Why Can’t We Talk About This?
  7. What Inclusion Looks Like
  8. Want Happier Customers?
  9. Nobody wants to be informed by a glorified ATM machine that they have six months to live
  10. Now you know why you hate some of the kids you grew up with
  11. Why Your Ideas Die
  12. Q&A with Brian Solis – Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive and H …
  13. Why Words do Matter
  14. Consciousness Is The New Battleground
  15. Mission Possible
  16. Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas that don’t make Sense by Rory Sutherland
  17. The Key To Organizational Success
  18. Why your ego can be your worst enemy

May 2019

  1. The Miracle of Sudden Insight
  2. The number one secret to great leadership
  3. Why Innovation = Influence
  4. Why it’s not enough for the customer to love your product
  5. Memories Are Meaning
  6. Do you want to have it all?
  7. Do you want to be part of something larger?
  8. What Mortality Does To The Mind.
  9. Be Careful What You Wish For
  10. What makes life worth living?
  11. Why the messenger gets shot
  12. Make Your Meetings A Safe Space For Honest Conversation
  13. Seeing The World Anew
  14. The one thing best performers always do
  15. How to leverage the laws of nature to build better outcomes.
  16. You really do need to pick yourself
  17. Let’s dance with infinity
  18. Want to know how to manage yourself?
  19. Does Your Work Matter?
  20. Emotions Come First Every Time…No Matter the Consequences
  21. How To Frame A Crisis
  22. What does CNN, FOX and Haagen Dazs have in common?

April 2019

  1. Do you really want to be successful?
  2. ‘Soft Skills’ are the ones you really cannot learn
  3. Inclusion: It’s about norms, not policy
  4. Why Employees Lose Their Motivation
  5. Your boss didn’t take the Culture Science© 101 Class…and it’s okay
  6. Why you can make $1.2 million a year and still feel broke
  7. Want Some Great Advice?
  8. How to transcend the daily drudgery
  9. You wouldn’t ask Mozart what notes he’d use would you?
  10. There are only two ways to go
  11. The Financial Upside of Being an Optimist
  12. The Only Way to Win
  13. Why people question your competency?
  14. Are you sleepwalking through life?
  15. 6 Habits of Empathetic People
  16. Can Healthcare be transparent?
  17. Buddha On Management
  18. Why you feel like you should have studied juggling.
  19. Why Napoleon Was Undefeatable
  20. You do know that Diversity & Inclusion cannot be trained?

March 2019

  1. The importance of earning trust
  2. Why Should You Be A Continuous Learner?
  3. Marketers and Engineers ❤
  4. Your Best Business Case
  5. What Lives Forever?
  6. Buffet’s Number One Secret.
  7. How to change your life in an hour a day
  8. Remain Open To The World
  9. If In Doubt Be Helpful
  10. Your Record Collection
  11. How to Be a Successful CEO
  12. Are your emotions actually worth anything?
  13. The reality of meaning
  14. The Secret to Starting a Movement
  15. Rise Up!
  16. Check yourself before you wreck yourself
  17. Do you have a winning mentality?
  18. Want to know how to turn change into a movement?
  19. What is your alternate reality?
  20. Where is the real joy?

February 2019

  1. Don’t Worry Alone
  2. Why you watch everyone making the same mistakes…over and over again
  3. Putting Humanity Back Into Organizations
  4. A new era has begun
  5. What do you do when you know it won’t get any better?
  6. What your career and cat videos have in common
  7. Ready…Set…Change
  8. How to stay calm in the face of uncertainty
  9. Why rabbit holes are your worst enemy
  10. Why most D&I programs don’t work
  11. Learn To Love Without Fear
  12. Why The Laws of Evolution Apply to Your Business
  13. It’s not perfection that we are seeking
  14. Why Painful Change Isn’t
  15. We know you’re a visionary. But are you a game changer?
  16. Start the search on the inside
  17. Why the world is unequal… and will always be
  18. Let’s give this a go and see what happens!
  19. Sometimes you have to quit to win
  20. The Key To Success: be one step ahead of the game

January 2019

  1. How smart collaborations can lead to massive success
  2. How a daily huddle can keep your business aligned and on track
  3. The one thing to do when things aren’t working
  4. The best way to get famous
  5. Be good at two things
  6. Wait, is it possible to have a great reputation and a terrible culture?
  7. What every boss should be thinking about
  8. Perfection is for amateurs
  9. Without Love There Is No Freedom
  10. The Big Bleed
  11. Feedback is a gift
  12. The Real Reason Why Storytelling is a Big Deal
  13. Go For It!!
  14. This 1937 Orwell Quote is more relevant than ever
  15. When Validation Actually Matters
  16. For the love of work
  17. How To Be Irreplaceable
  18. Commit To Each Other
  19. The Way We Fly
  20. Create Wow Moments In Your Life

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December 2018

  1. Happy New Year!
  2. Is it safe to be honest?
  3. Why humility is so powerful.
  4. Create good trouble
  5. Joy Joy Joy
  6. You have absolutely no choice
  7. Stop hiring and start investing
  8. What Leadership Really Feels Like
  9. A dead simple mental model for improving your comms
  10. Do we really need to talk?
  11. It’s about the stories we tell
  12. You have to think it, before you can play it.
  13. Are you part of the change-pack?
  14. Thank you for being amazing!
  15. Accountability is not always about measurement
  16. A Cognitive Bias that Might Rule Your Life
  17. Management by placebo
  18. Genius Is Random
  19. Don’t Let The Past Get In The Way of The Future
  20. Do you have the freedom to speak up?

November 2018

  1. Look Up, life is happening and you’re missing it!
  2. What are the stories you have to tell?
  3. When has pushing the envelope gone too far?
  4. How The Frozen Middle Separates Management from Innovation
  5. Kindness Is Contagious
  6. Are You Thankful?
  7. You have to aim for the stars
  8. Stop delegating. Start teaching.
  9. How Love is the Path to Excellence
  10. The importance of mindset and the search for meaning
  11. From notoriously entrenched to more productive
  12. The Michelangelo Phenomenon
  13. Don’t forget to enjoy the ride!
  14. Are you brave enough to let go?
  15. The life of your mind
  16. Be nimble, be smart, be agile
  17. How to use positive visualization for greater good
  18. Why you should create your own genius network
  19. Why You Must Connect

October 2018

  1. Why Your Job is to Align and Simplify
  2. Why change management is emotional
  3. What Comes Next?
  4. What are you thankful for?
  5. How to grab your window of opportunity
  6. The social construction of reality
  7. Choose the path of most resistance.
  8. Aren’t Mondays the best?!
  9. Here’s To The Crazy Ones
  10. How to hit reset on your life
  11. Food for Thought?
  12. How to hire the right people
  13. The key to being amazing
  14. What differentiates million dollar businesses from billion dollar businesses?
  15. How you strive for excellence
  16. How purpose gives you a sense of direction
  17. Why real relationships matter
  18. The One Guaranteed Way to be a Genius
  19. Why staying inspired is so important
  20. How Taking Care of People Becomes Good Business
  21. Feeling creative? Why you need to be intentional

September 2018

  1. Here’s why you’re more productive working at the office
  2. Being the best version of yourself.
  3. The wisdom of living like Bill & Steve
  4. Why you should celebrate work
  5. The reason behind everything you do.
  6. The fleeting beauty of life
  7. Seeking: A Higher Love
  8. How to Create an Innovation Mindset
  9. Be a world class act
  10. The importance of an open mind
  11. Empathic Compassion
  12. Unleash your creative genie
  13. Why your employer loves your family
  14. Man Is Not An Island
  15. The Magic Of Give And Take
  16. Why nothing is changing for you

August 2018

  1. It’s time to choose you
  2. The art of turning up
  3. Set Yourself Free
  4. It’s time to take charge!
  5. Which rainbow are you chasing?
  6. Seeking: Validation
  7. Finding your Jerusalem
  8. Opportunity knocks
  9. Where’s my trophy?
  10. Love is the only driver
  11. Spiritual Redemption
  12. Is it just about the validation?
  13. Failure, the mother of success
  14. What does sacrifice really mean?
  15. The Number One Reason Why Everyone’s So Messed Up
  16. Dreaming of ‘Peak You’?

July 2018

  1. Find Your Voice
  2. Count Your Blessings
  3. Your secret fear
  4. The art of forgiveness
  5. A dialogue with the ultimate truth
  6. We can’t all be Elon Musk…and that’s ok.
  7. How To Be An Empathetic Leader
  8. Be the star of your own show
  9. Enjoy just being alive
  10. You’ve Won The Cosmic Lottery
  11. This Is How Things Evolve
  12. It’s all about timing
  13. Build A Bridge
  14. Strength brought under control
  15. Share What You Love
  16. The worthwhile fight
  17. Architect Your Own Destiny
  18. Camaraderie Rules

June 2018

  1. This Is What I Do
  2. Stuck between order and chaos?
  3. What makes you happy in the long run?
  4. Is serious business fun?
  5. How to drive digital transformation
  6. Creativity: The key to problem solving
  7. The Four Critical Things That Scale
  8. A top down failure
  9. Pay attention to the little stuff
  10. With Oxytocin All Things Are Possible
  11. Unlock the key to happiness
  12. Why Money Follows Emotion
  13. What does real leadership mean?
  14. Live Bravely
  15. So who calls the shots?
  16. Nobody’s Perfect
  17. A dialogue with purpose
  18. Stop worrying about the robots, and start worrying about people.
  19. Feeling ordinary?

May 2018

  1. Have you had your Shawshank moment yet?
  2. Experiencing self-doubt?
  3. Word of Mouth
  4. A different kind of empowerment
  5. A shared sense of purpose
  6. Does tech liberate or enslave us?
  7. CULTURE CULTURE CULTURE
  8. Welcome to the hustle
  9. Accept the pain and do it anyway
  10. Eight Behaviors for self-management
  11. great ideas have lonely childhoods
  12. It all begins with culture
  13. Give it a good thwack!
  14. Do it because your soul demands it
  15. The Key To Being Unstoppable
  16. The secret of Michael Dell’s success
  17. Where ideas are born
  18. Hanging with the right crowd
  19. It’s all about You

April 2018

  1. Do you have the creative gene?
  2. Love is the new metric
  3. Who is going to save the world?
  4. Happiness is a competitive advantage
  5. The art of iteration
  6. Make mine a bias-free latte
  7. You gotta keep it real
  8. One for the haters
  9. You can’t have one without the other
  10. Talking about a revolution
  11. The never ending search for meaning
  12. It’s all about the adventure, baby.
  13. What do you want to be when you grow up?
  14. How to scale your genius
  15. Let’s Get Equal
  16. Thinking about reverse engineering culture?
  17. Do you have the stamina?
  18. It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it.
  19. What’s your story?
  20. Is your creative thinking boosting your career?
  21. The Keepers Of The Old Guard

March 2018

  1. Why People Are Unhappy
  2. Making your company formidable.
  3. Learn How Amazing Storytelling Can Elevate Your Content Marketing & download the Eboo …
  4. Think like a beginner.
  5. There’s more to life than making money.
  6. Signed, sealed, delivered
  7. Fame, at what cost?
  8. You gotta have faith
  9. Did you see it coming?
  10. The number one secret to great leadership
  11. What Inspires You?
  12. Where Do You Fit In
  13. What makes you amazing?
  14. In The Pursuit of Relevance
  15. How To Profit From Talking
  16. Behavior Is Contagious
  17. The New Global Power
  18. Success Is A Team Sport
  19. Curiosity Is as Important as Intelligence
  20. Why Being Great Isn’t Good Enough
  21. “Without Love I am Nothing”
  22. Why every business needs entrepreneurs.

February 2018

  1. Blaze your own trail
  2. Innovation is the sincerest form of flattery
  3. Be Useful, Be Grateful
  4. The one and only way to get accurate engagement data
  5. Inspiring Future Leaders
  6. How To Be Creative
  7. The Next Big Disruption
  8. Inclusion – It’s the American way
  9. Leadership Informs Culture
  10. Make An Impossible Dream, A Future Reality
  11. Create Love Or Die
  12. What Failure Really Means
  13. Start By Having Smarter Conversations
  14. Why Engagement Surveys Don’t Do What They Promise
  15. Mindset is a way of living
  16. Congratulations Elon Musk!
  17. The one way to achieve your dreams
  18. Be who you were born to be
  19. The future of business is here
  20. The Extra Mile

January 2018

  1. Listening – even when what’s being said is hard to hear
  2. Without trust there is nothing
  3. Culture happens in between the rules
  4. Connect hope with action
  5. Love it or leave it
  6. We buy belief in our own human potential
  7. You don’t need to own it to use it
  8. Is your purpose to be “crushing it” all the time?
  9. If you look after them
  10. Albert Einstein’s Theory of Happiness
  11. Imagination Is Life
  12. Set yourself free
  13. Make the old the “new and improved”
  14. People are organic
  15. No Negotiation, No Discount
  16. Our infinite need to be meaningful
  17. Invest in simple gestures
  18. Simple Formula: Happiness = Success
  19. The redemptive power of persistence
  20. Exclusivity or inclusivity
  21. Think like Musk, act like Musk
  22. Waiting for the stop sign to turn green

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December 2017

  1. It’s not rocket science…
  2. R-E-S-P-onsibility
  3. Hiring for culture
  4. It’s all about the narrative
  5. The Golden Rule
  6. Your time will come
  7. Its “user,” not “youser”
  8. Contagious and infectious trust
  9. Ride your own wave
  10. Celebrate Small Wins
  11. You’re talking to me?
  12. Decide what you want to be
  13. The Golden Road to Unlimited Customer Devotion
  14. Over and over and over
  15. Good ideas have lonely childhoods 2017
  16. Count your blessings
  17. Check yourself before you wreck yourself
  18. How To Out-Care Your Competition
  19. What would George Orwell say about your Facebook addiction?

November 2017

  1. You’ll go ape over your 2017 faves!
  2. Always give value first
  3. How To Think Like Elon Musk
  4. The Magic Isn’t In The Hours
  5. Face the inevitable and learn
  6. Will you be outsourced or automated
  7. Are you a Minder, Grinder or Finder?
  8. Get big, act small
  9. Don’t be a whiner
  10. It’s A Joint Effort
  11. Best is a privilege
  12. The long game
  13. My job is to love my life
  14. We Are All Patients
  15. Get Gritty
  16. Who cares if the lightbulb burns out?
  17. Talent is a gift
  18. No one reads our minds
  19. The compass of leadership

October 2017

  1. On you will go…
  2. Helpful Trumps Hierarchy
  3. Let Them Be Their Best Selves
  4. How Do You Win?
  5. Trouble For Startups
  6. Excellence Needs Recognition
  7. Hierarchy of hiring
  8. Happiness vs Pleasure
  9. What’s love got to do with it?
  10. Watch out, it’s contagious
  11. It’s a joint effort
  12. Motivation, it’s what we’ve got
  13. StartUp Land
  14. All talent wars are culture wars
  15. How the movie making model can help drive business
  16. Give people what they want
  17. Innovation by bayonet
  18. Stay Curious
  19. The simplest way
  20. Is this the beginning of the end?
  21. Keeping up with the changes
  22. Leading By Example
  23. Through the Good and the Bad
  24. Generalists vs Experts
  25. Happiness = Success

September 2017

  1. What gets the people going?
  2. Fill in the blanks
  3. The inevitable failure of avoiding failure
  4. A pretty good performance metric
  5. My presence is a present
  6. I’m Going To Be A CEO
  7. Measurement of character
  8. Keeping the client busy
  9. Let’s begin with “Thank You”
  10. As Einstein said…
  11. The art of the sell
  12. The leader’s role
  13. The law of attraction
  14. I’m sticking with you
  15. Living my best life
  16. Being Involved
  17. The finding
  18. It WILL happen!
  19. The limit does not exist
  20. Why is tech so sexy?
  21. What gets the people going?
  22. You’re a firework

August 2017

  1. Tipping over
  2. What’s a family?
  3. On Modern Leadership
  4. Let me tell you what to focus on
  5. Identifying the question
  6. Culture beyond the conversation
  7. Employee Engagement: Alternative Facts
  8. The necessity of work
  9. Sustainable passion
  10. What it means to be an employee
  11. The lightning bolt
  12. Companies have feelings too
  13. The thing that holds us together
  14. Opportunity cost
  15. Leaders 4 Leaders
  16. It’s cool to be kind
  17. One More Try
  18. It’s okay. You’re allowed to be wrong.
  19. Make yourself irreplaceable
  20. Yourself, your job, your job description
  21. The worst thing I could imagine
  22. Bring your best self to work day
  23. Doing the authentic
  24. The Great Work Study

July 2017

  1. Reaching your goals
  2. What have we done?!
  3. Natural progression
  4. The Great Divide
  5. Who are you asking?
  6. Naturally Irrational
  7. Energy can only be transferred
  8. The great triangular motivator
  9. A fake quote with real meaning
  10. The origin of species/innovation
  11. The journey is the reward
  12. We’re just having fun
  13. Here, now
  14. The one thing that always works
  15. Attitude of Gratitude
  16. Have you tried restarting
  17. We’re not selling what we’re selling
  18. The Worthwhile Fight
  19. The first step

June 2017

  1. The difference between ‘great’ and ‘need’
  2. The most important part of speech
  3. Human 4 Human
  4. Good Personality Traits and Self Confidence
  5. How to Stay Focused at Work: Directing the Flow
  6. Oh, you can’t take that away from me
  7. Big Picture Thinking
  8. Respect In the Workplace
  9. The reality of conspiracy theories
  10. Where the wild things are
  11. Team Building Activities
  12. Corner office vs. open space
  13. Fluid is the new flexible
  14. Chase down your dreams
  15. A shift in perception
  16. Valuable real estate
  17. A very good start
  18. Harder, better, faster, stronger
  19. Your body and your mind, forever entwined
  20. Narrowing the playing field
  21. Strong leaders create strong leaders
  22. Life without dissonance
  23. The juice is worth the squeeze
  24. Passionate about clarity

May 2017

  1. Recruitment Best Practices: How to Hire Employees
  2. Memorial Day 2017: The Worthwhile Fight
  3. Motivation to Get Up: Make Work Worth Your Time
  4. Company Core Values: Impactful & Meaningful
  5. Human Resources: Corporate Culture Advisors
  6. Freedom and Responsibility: The Meeting Point
  7. Failure is Key to Company Culture Success!
  8. Motivate Employees by Setting Minds Free
  9. Forgiveness at Work
  10. Most people aren’t willing
  11. An Argument Against Sleep
  12. The only way you’ll ever learn
  13. Support systems
  14. No Doubt About It
  15. What won’t save you from mediocrity helps you figure out what will
  16. making the best of it
  17. Teaching For The Sake Of What?
  18. Navigation systems ready
  19. A Welcome Moment Of Quiet
  20. Deliberate Progression
  21. With great trust comes great responsibility
  22. A network of ideas
  23. Knowing how to take advantage

April 2017

  1. A you-sized impact
  2. If you’re not free, what does that say about me?
  3. Risk, reward, and what it’s worth to you
  4. What are you like when you’re alone?
  5. Living, dying, and what happens in between
  6. A very relevant proverb
  7. A listening ear
  8. What Disney taught me
  9. Why we innovate
  10. Why so serious?
  11. It’s not where you live, it’s where you’ve traveled
  12. Maybe the need is just change
  13. The Real Super Power
  14. Change from within
  15. The Attention Economy
  16. We’re almost there
  17. Don’t diss the small stuff
  18. Because it matters
  19. The Holy Trinity
  20. Making sense of our surroundings

March 2017

  1. Free at last
  2. Deciding who needs a hand
  3. I can tell what the future will bring
  4. Two birds, one culture
  5. Achieving something
  6. Be amazing at one thing
  7. Like viruses, ideas need to spread
  8. What’s cooler than being cool?
  9. What we learn from chickens.
  10. Technology changes. People don’t.
  11. We’re not all good, but we’re all worth a shot
  12. Innovation is the sincerest form of flattery
  13. A Proud Leader
  14. Find Something Worth Changing
  15. Staying Alive
  16. I never stop talking
  17. A case for beautiful
  18. A culture of helpfulness
  19. Creativity Is Our Only Hope
  20. Determining metrics
  21. Inside Yourself
  22. The whole and the hole
  23. The easiest thing to forget

February 2017

  1. The eternal option
  2. It’s not about the money
  3. The roots of thought leadership
  4. Just Do It
  5. The balance of all things
  6. A tasteful combination
  7. Inclusion – it’s the American way
  8. Dividing atoms
  9. More work, less paperwork
  10. Gut Instinct
  11. Love Is The Mission
  12. The creativity of transformation
  13. Make meaning, not money
  14. The best jobs will never be televised
  15. Ask First
  16. We’re not shy about the F word
  17. Coming In Hot
  18. Everything old is new again
  19. An IRL social network
  20. The Five-Step Team Building Solution

January 2017

  1. teacher becomes the student
  2. Empowerment through transformation
  3. Today, I choose my fate
  4. Creativity is born of need
  5. The Work Ethic Of An Artist
  6. Making Lemonade
  7. Agility Is An Exercise
  8. The Thing In The Distance
  9. A Good Source Of Pride
  10. Sexy, Gritty Work
  11. Competition <> Collaboration
  12. I’m not perfect = I have a lot to learn
  13. The Only Way To Win Is…
  14. Get Going!!
  15. set out for excellence
  16. I Would Like To Believe That We Are Not Alone
  17. genius is random
  18. Let’s be regular people for a minute
  19. Ideal Work Environment
  20. Growth Is Change
  21. I’m Going To Make Something Out Of This Year

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