Six Professional Lessons From Six Movie Side Hustles

by mvboronowski | Nov 8, 2017 | Creativity, Pop Culture Career Advice

We tend to remember Indiana Jones as a Nazi-fighting, world-saving, rough-and-tumble adventurer, not as a Professor of Archeology. We tend to remember Erin Brockovich as a feisty, community-minded legal aid who held corporations accountable, not as a single mom. And...

Six Collaboration Tips from PAW Patrol

by mvboronowski | Sep 20, 2017 | Collaboration, Pop Culture Career Advice

As a father of a toddler with a reasonable social network, I am becoming immersed in the world of the hit (I think) children’s animated series and consumer products juggernaut, PAW Patrol. The show’s premise is simple enough. Ryder, a “tech-savvy boy” with a passion...

Six Lifelong Learning Lessons from The Intern Movie

by mvboronowski | Sep 13, 2017 | Adaptability, Learning & Thinking, Pop Culture Career Advice

Last week I published a piece on lifelong learning lessons from the perfectly fine Google recruitment video and/or raucous, adventurous workplace comedy, The Internship. This week I will focus on another perfectly fine (except for the last 20 minutes, but this isn’t a...

Six Lifelong Learning Tips from The Internship Movie

by mvboronowski | Sep 6, 2017 | Learning & Thinking, Pop Culture Career Advice

Last weekend I was prompted by Netflix’s algorithm to watch The Intern and The Internship movies. Both movies got the juices flowing in terms of what so many co-op students and former interns are thinking about now that they’re back in school. This week I’ll focus on...

The Potentiality’s Summer Podcast List

by mvboronowski | Aug 2, 2017 | Leadership, Pop Culture Career Advice

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 car travel or your outdoor commute...

Five Professional Lessons from Back to the Future

by mvboronowski | Jul 26, 2017 | Creativity, Pop Culture Career Advice

Back to the Future is an American cinematic classic. The story of Marty McFly traveling through time to the year 1955 (and then into the future) in a tricked out DeLorean time machine has got everything: cool sci-fi premise, great acting by Michael J Fox and...