Four Professional Lessons From the 2018 World Cup Final

by mvboronowski | Jul 18, 2018 | Leadership, Pop Culture Career Advice

We probably just experienced one of the greatest Men’s Football World Cup Finals in modern history. There were own-goals, there was controversial technology, titans of the sport fell, young-upstart-squads excelled, and we all compartmentalized the event’s unfortunate...

Four Career Lessons from Training Day

by mvboronowski | Jun 6, 2018 | Adaptability, Pop Culture Career Advice

Starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke in their prime, Training Day tells the story of a corrupt cop Alonzo (Washington) who takes his new recruit Jake Hoyt (Hawke) on a hell of a ride for his first day working narcotics in Los Angeles. The film is just awesome....

Five professional lessons from Fargo the Series

by mvboronowski | May 23, 2018 | Learning & Thinking, Pop Culture Career Advice

Netflix’s TV series Fargo tells the tale of a series of awful murders in and around Bemidji, Minnesota. After a fateful encounter with a ruthless hitman, local pushover Lester Nygaard finds himself drawn into a double life of murder and deception. As Lester goes down...

Five Leadership Lessons from Daniel and Henrik Sedin

by mvboronowski | Apr 11, 2018 | Leadership, Pop Culture Career Advice

We’re a fickle, precious bunch here in Vancouver. We consistently rank amongst the best places in the world to live, yet we never run out of reasons to point out what needs fixing. We’re thankful not to have a highway pummeling through the city but we hate the endless...

Four career building tips from Resident Evil

by mvboronowski | Apr 4, 2018 | Creativity, Pop Culture Career Advice

My wife and I love zombie movies and Netflix has one our favourites. Resident Evil is based on a zombie-hunting video game by Capcom. In the film, the Umbrella Corporation – a company of profound political and economic power – operates a secret research facility...

Eight Fast & Furious Ways to Enhance Learning Agility

by mvboronowski | Mar 28, 2018 | Learning & Thinking, Pop Culture Career Advice

Many of the Fast & Furious movies are showing up on Canadian Netflix. All the way up to Fast Five, I think. For the record, I still haven’t seen the eighth one, but I have read The Ringer staff’s exit survey about it. After re-watching the first few films (in the...