My Potentiality Reflections After 10 Years
For the past 10 years our team has been publishing new articles pretty much every week (1,032 pieces to date to be specific). Beginning this month, I will start scaling back the amount of new content that I produce for…
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….
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…
Three Governance Lessons from Serving as CERIC’s Board Chair
Next week I will end my two-year term as Chair of the Board of Directors for CERIC, a charity purposed with advancing career development in Canada. I’ve run a bunch of meetings that (mostly) ended on time, co-created/co-facilitated strategic planning…
Black Lives Matter
I want to be on the record – on this side of history – as someone who stands against systemic racism and who believes that Black lives matter. This is also a time for guys who look like me to…
10 More Career Development Questions about The Last Dance
A few weeks ago I answered 10 career development questions about The Last Dance asked by Kurt Heinrich, the non-basketball-fan-co-founder of this website. Like everyone on the planet who has finished season three of Ozark, I watched and loved the…
What I’m Learning from Using Gender-Neutral Pronouns for My Bike
Last year I joined several of my Vancity colleagues in a gender identity workshop delivered by Adrienne Smith, a transgender human rights activist and drug policy lawyer. Adrienne shared simple tips for fostering inclusive communities, especially for folks who identify…
10 Career Development Questions About The Last Dance
Like tens of millions of people around the world, I’m watching and loving The Last Dance. The story of Michael Jordan and the 1990s Chicago Bulls is one of realized potential amidst spectacular circumstances. For me, the viewing experience is…