A great company culture without a sense interdependence and community, isn’t: bit.ly/3JKkgSw

We recently discovered a news report shared by Colm Flynn featuring postman, Mike Sheehan, who cycled miles each day for 42 years, delivering not just mail, but essential goods to his neighbors.

What it captures is something we can often take for granted:…

David Ogilvy offered a solution to the problem of comfort: 'Divine Discontentment.' Regardless of its source, it’s a massively incurable dissatisfaction with the way things are that permeates our being and keeps us hungering for more.' bit.ly/4b1mPew

When asked why he was no longer writing classic songs like he used to, Willie Nelson said: “When I wrote those great songs I was cold and hungry. I’m not cold and hungry anymore.” Learn more about the Willie Nelson problem: bit.ly/4b1mPew

Cynics like to say culture is 'soft' or only about 'making people happy.' And yet the current Boeing drama clearly indicates otherwise: barrons.com/articles/boein…

What would happen if we stopped measuring happiness, and started measuring the amount of meaning we experience? And more importantly, if we reoriented our lives, our work, and our organizations toward cultivating more of it? Asking for a friend. bit.ly/3vDir6u

Apparently, we were a lot happier last year than we are this year. At least that’s what the studies say, (and we all know they’re right). But why are we measuring happiness to begin with? The good life isn’t about “happiness.” It’s about meaning: bit.ly/3vDir6u

RIP Daniel Kahneman. What he said out loud were the things we intuitively knew about human behavior in organizations all along but were afraid to admit. Read on: bit.ly/4cDFZJe

RIP Daniel Kahneman. What he said out loud were the things we intuitively knew about human behavior in organizations all along but were afraid to admit. That for all our swanning around, we’re all making it up as we go along: bit.ly/4cDFZJe

It's never about blame. It's about curiosity. Read a short culture perspective on the Boeing fallout from our CEO Jason Korman: nasdaq.com/articles/boein…

The Artist goes fishing in the ocean. AI goes fishing in the aquarium. This is the problem with AI content creator programs. They can’t create new experiences, they can only “fish” for somebody else’s old ones. bit.ly/3TCgUqA

We’ve all heard how AI will put creatives out of work. Yet there’s one question that the AI advocates don’t seem to be asking much: Do people actually want to drink from a stagnant pool? bit.ly/3TCgUqA

The idea that the “Cup is already broken” stood out to us on Ryan Holiday’s recent Daily Stoic podcast. The idea being, instead of wasting our time worrying about losing something, perhaps we should just assume it’s “already lost.” bit.ly/3PgEkz8

She never had the rock and roll lifestyle or became a household name, but her music did, in spades. Read on to discover who we're celebrating and happy International Women's Day: bit.ly/3wDY3SP

Like the artist, Renda Writer, so beautifully captured, “Love is a risk, do it anyway.” Read the full story: bit.ly/3IpsizK

What’s the connection between Irish novelist James Joyce and Kim Kardashian? The short answer: Vanity. Not to mention our deep seated need for connection. Read the full story: bit.ly/3IpsizK

It’s great to have personal power, but it’s even better to be able to unleash the power in others. Read on: bit.ly/3SXQmyo

One reason companies with great cultures can run rings around their competition is that not everything has to be written down and signed in blood.

People say what they’ll do and do what they say. Our word actually means something. Everybody wins: bit.ly/3P5LKoL

So many Gapingvoid Culture Design Group cartoons capture exactly what I want to say. Here is another.

A great example of simple leadership is former soccer-player-turned-CEO, Bjørn Gulden who turned Adidas around not with a complex 20 point plan, but through common sense tweaks that improved the culture: bit.ly/3SU5azg