An Internal Server Error Haiku
Server error. Gross. HTML detective. Learn through discomfort. – A haiku about the time this website was inaccessible until issues were diagnosed and problems were solved collaboratively! It is a good reminder that the best learning is often uncomfortable. Whether…
Five Professional Lessons from the Mission: Impossible Movies
Action mega-star and semi-controversial human being, Tom Cruise, has done it again! Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation has hit theatres and is receiving critical acclaim and all of our money, too. Kurt and I love action movies and we also…
Playing Through Adversity
Over the weekend I witnessed athletes play through adversity. My oldest son’s basketball team lost four games against very talented, very organized, and very aggressive teams from the Lower Mainland. (The last game was close, though!). Observing the games as…
How Constraints Unleash Creativity and Productivity
Constraints can enable innovation and efficiency. By knowing what boundaries limit us and what ones are bendable, we can use constraints to inform decision making as well as cultivate creativity in our worklife. Here is an example of using both…