Another great sketch posted by Hugh MacLeod on his Gapingvoid Gallery. This one is titled ‘Change‘.
You leave college and go into the business of your choice, full of youth, energy and optimism.You work your tail off for a decade or two, and suddenly you find yourself at the top of the profession, top of the heap. You rockstar, you.
Once you get to the top the heap, the last thing you want to be told is that the heap isn’t quite as high as you first thought. In fact, there is no heap. It was all just an illusion.
The world is changing faster than ever, massive change has been with us since the day we were born, it’s been the main constant of our lives.
And yet we still fear it…
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Human beings are primates. We’re social. Everything we do is related around socializing with others of our species.Yet we’re always tempted to think otherwise. That our businesses are not what they actually are (social groups), but more like machines. Taylorism, Homo Economicus and all that…
This is why I always recommend people reading the work of my good friend, Mark Earls. Mark’s thesis is, simply, 1. That people are social animals, 2. That businesses are social groups, not machines, 3. That what holds these social groups (businesses) together is a collective sense of “purpose”, 3. A business without a strong “Purpose-Idea” is at a considerable disadvantage.
And if you hate socializing… then mondays must really bad…
And now for something a bit more positive, in other words no conspiracy theories…
Several years ago web analytics guru Avinash Kaushik blogged about Hugh MacLeod, the artist behind the blog Gapingvoid. Hugh draws, or scribbles as Hugh himself calls it, inspiring creations about topics like emotions, business challenges, angst and love.
Since a few months now Hugh has been selling is artwork via www.gapingvoidgallery.com. He promotes his work via a daily (workdays only) newsletter which I can really recommend. I am sure that I will purchase one of his artworks one of these days, but in the meantime I can sit back and enjoy his work via my Inbox.
