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Why “Culture” is not just another business fad
This was a rather flippant cartoon I drew yesterday in my notebook, that actually makes a serious point about our business model, namely: 1. Now that the ideas of “job for life” and “work-life...
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How to affect corporate culture in a meaningful way
[Untitled drawing from 2003 etc.] [N.B. Harold has a new book out, "Seeking Perpetual Beta".] So I wrote a wee note to one of my favorite “Culture” thinkers these days, Harold Jarche: Speaking of the...
View ArticleCapitalism won’t be replaced with Socialism, but with something far more trippy
Everybody and their mother has been predicting the death of capitalism for the last couple of years, ever since the bankers screwed eveything up etc. That might be true, it probably isn’t. But even if...
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Culture Shifting: America’s next big industry?
This is how I see it. And it isn’t rocket science: 1. If you want to change your business, you also have to change your culture. If you want to change your culture, you also have to change your...
View ArticleTom Malone’s “Age of Hyperspecialization”
The Future Of Work 2.0 From The Harvard Business Review, July 2011: “Tom Malone, professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of the HBR article The Age of Hyperspecialization, explains...
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The Toppel Collection Art & Cocktail Evening
[May 20th cocktail evening details here] Probably the most stunning example of the work we do here at gapingvoid is here in Miami, the “Hughseum” we set up at the Toppel Career Center at the...
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The Real Class Divide
Economic Inequality is the big news story these days. Whether we’re talking about Occupy Wall Street, the Google Bus protests, the high rents in New York, gentrification, the stagnation of middle...
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“The place where cartoons work the best: Within the cracks that we try...
L. wrote me a nice email about the Daily Cartoon above: Dear Hugh, If I understand the message of this piece of art, I strongly object to it. All that live here are connected– life connects us all...
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Zappos is forcing new job candidates to join its own social network
[Buy the print etc.] From The Verge: That résumé you’ve been laboring on won’t get you very far at Zappos. The online shoe retailer owned by Amazon has completely done away with traditional job...
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“Business is not about making money, business is about the human condition,...
I drew this “Market for something to believe in” cartoon in 2004, sitting at a bar, at the end of a crappy day at my equally crappy day job. It went on to be called “The Hughtrain”, named after The...
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“Human beings will ALWAYS copy what they perceive to be successful behavior.”
[Buy the print.] This cartoon went out this morning in the Daily Cartoon. I originally drew it to celebrate the latest book of one of my favorite business thinkers, my friend, Mark Earls. I can safely...
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gapingvoid is getting its HR on
The rumors are true, the team is heading up to Orlando for a big HR event. Official Blurb: Gapingvoid will be at SHRM: 2014 Orlando from June 22nd-25th this year. We’re excited for the opportunity to...
View Articlegapingvoid makes the news!
[gapingvoid is hiring. Please read below. Email: jobs AT gapingvoid.com.] It was a big day in the media for Team Gapingvoid. Not only did the local CBS news do a story on us (see video above), we got...
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gapingvoid in Miami
[Ilana Berman wrote this great article about gapingvoid for OurCityThoughts.org, the Knight Foundation's online magazine about Miami entrepreneurship and culture. I've printed the whole thing below-...
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My next book project….
[IMPORTANT: The book is going to be a very small limited edition, so if you want to reserve a copy, let me know at themarfaproject@gmail.com and I’ll send you a notification when it comes out. Keep on...
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I choose this life
[Buy the print here etc.] I gave this print to my wife, back when we first got engaged. It hangs in our living room, a nice little reminder etc. “Reminding”. That’s what great art does- it reminds us...
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Miami Beach and the future:
This is one of the pieces we did recently for the Miami Beach Mayor’s Office. Though Miami Beach is mostly known as a tourist town with a large proportion of their economy being bars and restaurants,...
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“The more enemies Alain De Botton makes in the art world, the better off for...
[Buy the print here.] A great wee animated video from the popular British philosopher, Alain De Botton over on The Guardian website, entitled “What Is Art For?” I met Alain briefly at Ted Global...
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gapingvoid business cards
[Order your own gapingvoid business cards here.] [Thanks to my old friend, Dennis Howlett for the following plug he left me on Facebook. Republished here with permission:] I’ve restarted that age old...
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Creativity at Scale: “What is scarce and valuable are creative cultures...
[Like this cartoon? Sign up to the gapingvoid Daily Cartoon here.] “Creativity at scale” is a nice idea. It’s the lifeblood of large organizations. The companies who can execute more good ideas, more...
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