Five Tips for Navigating Worklife Complexity
Worklife is complex. Whether we are making sense of hybrid work and its impact on the employee experience, raising a family, or changing career paths, every day we make decisions amidst complexity. Recognizing this reality and the impact that it is having on leaders,...
Why Connected Neighbourhoods Solve Loneliness
Amidst all the crises we’re facing, folks are understandably overlooking the epidemic that nobody is talking about: loneliness. This problem has been plaguing humanity for decades and the pandemic is only making things worse, as some country’s are reporting that one...
Simple and Sustainable Goals for 2023
Most people who made new years resolutions in 2023 have already quit them or will do so by tomorrow. Over 80% of folks who set bold goals or committed to keystone habits for 2023 will abandon them by the second week of February. I have shared my goals at the beginning...
Five Tips for Being More Romantic from Notting Hill
It’s Valentines Day today and I recently watched Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts light up the screen and box office with the romantic comedy Notting Hill on Netflix. In case you missed it, the film tells the story of ordinary William Thacker, an everyday English...
Five More Tips For Asking Great Questions
Great questions inspire better conversations. My book club recently read Basketball (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano, which seeks to ask and answer approximately 33 questions about, you guessed it, basketball and other topics, such as action movies and...
Three entrepreneurial lessons from Made in America
Made in America tells the fictionalized (or Tom-Cruise-ified) story of Barry Seal, a maverick TWA pilot who, in the 1970s, gave up the monotony of flying commercial planes to fly missions for the CIA in Central America. In the film, what begins as hot-shot spy...
Six Parenting Lessons from Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 2: Judgment Day was one of the first movies that moved me to tears. When John Connor slowly lowers his T800 Terminator into the cauldron of molten, flaming steel I experienced one of the film’s most emotional lines: “I know now why you cry.” When Arnold...
How We Will Reach Our Potential in 2018
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 as professionals, parents, partners, and human beings. For 2018, Godfrey, Michael, Kurt, and I are leveraging our...
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 you find peace and purpose. Here are six leadership...
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 community. According to science, mother-son...
Three Professional Lessons from Ozark
Ozark is Netflix Original American crime drama and thriller. It stars Jason Bateman as Marty Bryde, a financial advisor and all around mild-mannered dad with a seriously dark secret: he uses his financial consulting business to launder money for the Mexican drug...
Four Tips for Planning your next Trip
Most of us travel. Before you leave your home it’s critical to set yourself up for success by preparing with a good trip plan. You’ll want to consider the theme of your trip, where you will eat, sleep and frolic as well as the needs and desires of your travelling...