The Best Potentiality Articles from 2017
Another year is wrapping up. 2017 has been tumultuous (holy geopolitical landscape, Batman!), inspiring (#MeToo), tragic (you will be missed, Tom Petty), and enlightening (Lady Bird and other pinnacles of our culture). Amidst it all, this humble website has also…
Six Leadership Lessons from Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Last night Kurt and I saw Star Wars: The Last Jedi. We are still feeling conflict deep within us. Your work and life will also generate mixed feelings that blend the dark and light within you. We’re here to help…
65 Ways that my Mom Positively Impacts my Work and Life
My mom, Janet, turns 65 on Friday. She’s awesome. My relationship with my mom not only defines my relationship with women, it’s also taught me how to live with a disability and to joyfully and fiercely include folks in a…
Seven Ways to Embed Co-operative Principles in Your Organization
Co-operatives are an underutilized model for running an enterprise. October 16-20 is International Co-operatives Week and I work for one of Canada’s pre-eminent co-ops, Vancity Credit Union. I am quite biased in my thinking that the world needs more co-operatives….
The Potentiality’s Summer Podcast List
Last month our team shared a summer reading list that blended awesome works of fiction and non-fiction literature. The thing about books is that they aren’t easy to consume on road trips, which is a very awesome summer past-time. For…
The Potentiality’s Summer Reading List
Summer time means reading time. Some folks dig into books at the beach while soaking up sunshine and others soak in literature under a blanket in a dark, air conditioned basement. Others enjoy audiobooks during long or meandering road trips….
Six Tips for Thriving after the Collapse of Western Civilization
A few things happened last week. My wife and I watched Mad Max: Fury Road on Netflix (it’s really good) and Rachel Nuwer wrote a depressing article for the BBC Future about how Western Civilization could collapse. Facts are facts…
Four Pieces of Life Advice from Isaiah Thomas
I love The Ringer. When Kevin O’Connor visits Chris Vernon on The Ringer NBA Show it makes my heart smile. And I was thrilled when they got into it during a recent episode about Kevin’s interview with Boston Celtics point…
Five Ways to be a More Engaged Citizen
2016 will be remembered as one of the weirdest, disruptive and polarizing years in recent human history. From a Canadian perspective, we elected a government on promises of environmental and electoral progressiveness, but, much to the chagrin of many folks…
How We Will Realize Our Potential in 2017
Every January our team at The Potentiality engages in our New Year’s tradition of making public commitments about how we will realize our potential. For 2017, here is how Godfrey, Michael, Kurt, and I are leveraging our talents and stretching…