But it's hard to imagine a truly dynamic company like Google bringing
in Gapingvoid — their famously positive office culture arises organically, from employees who have ample freedom to create (the free food doesn't hurt, either).
In fact, you can find plenty of shallow platitudes
in the Gapingvoid online store: «A story without love is not worth telling.»
[Sent out earlier
in the gapingvoid newsletter etc:] Picasso, the greatest painter of the twentieth century, didn't sit around on his rear end all day,...
They're «Hugh Cards» — as
in Gapingvoid Gallery that are drawn from the extensive library of cartoons by my old friend Hugh MacLeod.
Maybe you can put
them in your gapingvoid wiki, and let us tag them; Or maybe start a Flickr album or something...
Not exact matches
My good friend whom I've never met but have received tons of encouragement from, Matt Calthrop
in the UK, went to an event where Hugh MacLeod of
gapingvoid was speaking.
When I first started putting up cartoons onto
gapingvoid in 2001, they were
in a small, 400 - pixel - wide format, just like the «Love Letter» cartoon you see above.
Founded
in 2008 with business partner Jason Korman,
Gapingvoid Ltd. has created custom art work for some of the largest, companies
in the world, including Intel, HP, Microsoft, Roche, Zappos, VMWare and VW - and is hung
in over 5,000 companies around the world.
When Jason and I launched
Gapingvoid and I became an artist full time, this lesson from 1990's Chicago stood us
in good stead from the start.
Since I often find myself talking new technologies with clients and colleagues, and often get a lot of resistance to change, both
in using new tools and changing habits, this piece from
gapingvoid resonated with me, on both sides...
In this episode of the Gape Into The Void Podcast Hugh and Jason have a chance to catch up with Internet phenomenon, Gary Vaynerchuk, a long - time friend of
gapingvoid.
This is what I meant when Paul Barron asked me, what's next for
gapingvoid,
in that terrific video interview he did earlier this year [Towards the end, about 19» 15» into it].
Laura holds a degree
in Business Management from Royal Holloway University of London, it was creating the retail side of
gapingvoid completely from scratch that taught her the expertise she has today.
Johnno's been building and hosting
gapingvoid since its inception
in 2001.
Fun fact: we're just over 50 %
in women to men here at
Gapingvoid Culture Design Group.
This t - shirt gig got us thinking at
gapingvoid Central, why can't Valentines» Day (a big day
in our calendar, already) be an opportunity to go beyond Romance, to communicate to those who matter to you, that they matter, that you care, and that we are all
in this together?
And then he graciously posed
in front of the piece now proudly hanging
in his office [with
gapingvoid props scattered everywhere, tongue slightly
in cheek etc etc.].
«Social Object» given a small mention etc. [From «Free Cartoons As Social Objects»: May, 2008] When I first started putting up cartoons onto
gapingvoid in 2001, they were
in a small, 400 - pixel - wide format, just like the «Love Letter» cartoon you see above.
[Hugh MacLeod is a cartoonist and co-founder of
gapingvoid, a company specializing
in creating art to affect real business outcomes and corporate culture for companies like Microsoft and Zappos.
Professor Snowden collaborates with
Gapingvoid in the areas of narrative data collection, scalable organizational change and enterprise narratives as a tool for alignment.
As
gapingvoid grows (And it's grown A LOT
in the last two years), our science gets better and better.
With the help of
gapingvoid and my business partner, my co-founder Jason Korman, I ended up doing very well by it, as did a few of my friends
in the same space.
If
gapingvoid stands for anything, it stands for bringing more love,
in the most meaningful sense of the word, to the workplace.
[This went out
in the newsletter at the weekend, written by my business partner,
gapingvoid CEO Jason Korman.]
-LSB-...] Brian Solis has an excellent guest post on
gapingvoid which discusses courage
in the face of unpredictable and relentless change: It Takes Courage -LSB-...]
Prior to becoming COO at
Gapingvoid, Jessica was Director of a Lean Six Sigma management consulting firm where she restructured Fortune 100 business operations, healthcare facilities, and created job growth on behalf of governments
in high - unemployment areas.
Founded
in 2006 with business partner Jason Korman, MacLeod's company,
Gapingvoid Ltd. has created custom art work for some of the largest, companies
in the world, including Intel, HP, Microsoft, Roche, Zappos, VMWare and VW - and is hung
in over 5,000 companies around the world.
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Ever since MacLeod sent the cartoon to Clayton and posted it on his blog,
gapingvoid (www.
gapingvoid.com) more than a year ago, the «blue monster» character has become an unofficial corporate mascot among many Microsoft employees, posted
in cubicles, printed on business cards and T - shirts, and added to e-mail signatures.
-LSB-...] InspireInspireInspire [This went out
in the newsletter at the weekend, written by my business partner,
gapingvoid CEO Jason Korman.]
-LSB-...] is the cartoonist Hugh MacLeod
in his blog
gapingvoid.
Here's how to supercharge your event: The
gapingvoid team was engaged by TechCrunch to create a range of content for the 2012 TechCrunch Disrupt conference
in San Francisco.
gapingvoid: why i prefer windows to macintosh There's lots of fun stuff
in this post.
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...
-LSB-...]
in the market, not
in the spreadsheet»
gapingvoid via
gapingvoid.com [«Adding Value», which I sent out
in the newsletter recently.
The
gapingvoid style
in large format sounds great.
When I first started putting up cartoons onto
gapingvoid in 2001, they were
in a small, 400 - pixel - wide format, just like the «Love Letter» cartoon you...
Thanks to Hewlett Packard for giving
gapingvoid the opportunity to live
in a place it hasn't yet i.e. the complex and mysterious world of cybersecurity i.e. the world where the hackers live and thrive happily.
In short, women are now calling the shots on
gapingvoid.
-LSB-...] how to be creative
Gapingvoid So you want to be more creative,
in art,
in business, whatever.
I hope that Twitter reserves the
gapingvoid user id — sort of like a sports team retiring a player's number — for you
in case you decide to return someday.
This made me so happy: My friend, Robert Scoble sent me a photo of the big
gapingvoid print they have up on the wall
in the Rackspace customer briefing room.
I first started playing with the idea of «Smarter - Conversations» way back
in 2004, the same year
gapingvoid really started getting traction
in the blogopsphere.
Though we at
gapingvoid contend that if HR is aligned
in a deep and meaningful way with the actual mission of the company (assuming the company actually has mission worth believing
in, of course), their job will be a lot easier and exciting for all concerned.
-LSB-...] building bridges between aspiration and consummation
gapingvoid In Uncategorized on April 20, 2010 at 13:06 via
gapingvoid.com -LSB-...]
We teamed up with author Brian Solis and the imaginative team at
Gapingvoid to bring you this guide to breaking through
in a world where 95 % of content fails to connect.
To those who don't know us well,
gapingvoid just appears to be
in the business of selling Hugh's cool illustrations.
Gapingvoid placed art
in high communication points, such as hallways and the front desk.
Johnson, the Michigan lawyer, also says he puts more upbeat
Gapingvoid cartoons
in the common areas, keeping the more cynical ones for his own office.
Learn more about evil plans launches february from
Gapingvoid, the leaders
in workplace culture consulting and making work more meaningful!