The Community Building Potential of … Malls?!

There we were, skipping and laughing ironically through Kitchener-Waterloo’s largest mall. My grad school roommate and current awesome friend, Jim, and I were hilariously lampooning the community building potential of malls by drawing a clear counterpoint to how they...
Three Metaphors for Modern Organizations

Three Metaphors for Modern Organizations

The workplace is like a factory: a hyper-efficient, soul-crushing assembly line where creativity is bolted down with automated machinery and lean processes. Workers create value as cogs in an industrious, uniform way. In some warehouses, they maximize productivity by...

A Happy New Year Haiku

A Happy New Year Haiku

Happy new year goals. Pathways full of potential. Make the luck you need. - A haiku about 2025, which is a year full of promise and potential for all of us (especially when we embrace planned happenstance by making the most of whatever situation the world throws us...

Systems of Agility

Systems of Agility

Systems of agility represent an approach or framework designed to foster flexibility, adaptability, and responsiveness in both work and life. It encompasses various elements, including flexible structures, malleable, diverse, and redeployable talent, and a culture...

A Fusion Haiku

A Fusion Haiku

Bring it together. Nuclear cooking platform. Embracing fusion. - A haiku about a very awesome, caring, and collaborative team that just launched a really big finance and HR system!  

How to Write a Great Thank-You Note

How to Write a Great Thank-You Note

Gratitude is an important thing to express and we say “thank you” in many different ways – we speak the words, we give gifts, we write emails and send cards. This article explains how to write a great thank you note. Written thank-yous are typically delivered with an...

A Basketball Haiku

A Basketball Haiku

Fall is basketball. Balls bouncing, sneakers squeaking. Be a great teammate. - A haiku about the start of basketball season that, I hope, inspires parents, coaches, and teachers to write poems about piano lessons, art classes, and soccer practices that have arrived....

Business Strategy, but make it Cycling

Business Strategy, but make it Cycling

I recently finished Holocracy by Brian J. Robertson and one of the metaphors he uses in the book is that business strategy should be like riding a bicycle. Good strategies adapt and adjust based on member and community needs, kinda like how we adjust balance and speed...

Back to School Tips for All Ages

Back to School Tips for All Ages

Little tykes, kids, young adults, adults, and grad students are all heading back to school next week. Learning – and being able to thrive in educational environments – is perhaps the greatest reflection of human achievement. Our team at The Potentiality is thrilled to...

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