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Month: July 2020

The Potentiality Playlist vol. 1

Music is – and always has been – the fabric of everyday life. Daniel J. Levitin, author of This is Your Brain on Music argues that, “music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and…

Three Workplace Trends to Watch

Work will never be the same after this. The coronavirus pandemic is challenging what we know about how, when and where work happens. Why organizations exist and what companies produce is being questioned, too. We have an opportunity to use…

Five Character Building Insights from Family Camping

My family spent last week camping in a provincial park on Vancouver Island. There were 13 of us spread over three campsites. Through kid-induced-drama and midnight-pee-breaks to early morning conversations and mass-feedings, the experience taught all of us new skills….

9 Adaptability Lessons from Heist Movies

One of the biggest trends impacting leaders today is the pace of change. Everything is shifting so quickly and we need to adapt like we’re careening through a crowded market in the South of France or heaving hundreds of millions…

Five Ways this Crisis is an Opportunity for Positive Change

Without a doubt this is one of the most calamitic Canada Days in a hundred years and certainly the most challenging and uncertain in a generation. This crisis – climate change compounded by a global pandemic compounded by a modern…