By Bryan Wish Dan Pontefract is a leadership strategist, author, keynote speaker and trusted advisor. He is a best-selling author whose award-winning books include LEAD. CARE. WIN.: How To Become a Leader Who Matters, OPEN TO THINK, THE PURPOSE EFFECT, and FLAT ARMY. As a speaker, Dan has presented at four different TED events and also writes for Forbes & Harvard Business Review. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, Gustavson School of Business, on the Thinkers50 Radar, and garnered more than 20 industry awards over his career. He is also the founder of the Pontefract Group, helping organizations & leaders reach their full potential. Through his company, Dan provides clients consultative services that assess and...
Nobody’s flawless. It’s a simple fact, but it needs repeating: nobody is perfect; everyone has flaws. In reality, it’s a very tough idea to accept about our loved ones. Especially for parents, many of whom believe that their children are peerless angels and the best people on the planet.However, some brutally honest parents anonymously opened up about their kids’ very worst character and behavior flaws in a series of r/AskReddit threads. They were very candid about what they dislike about their munchkins, and what they absolutely loathe about the things that they do. From excessive arrogance to compulsive lying and even worse, what follows is a dive into the darker side of parenting.A small warning for all of you Pandas:...
Tomorrow, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s six-week defamation trial comes to a close. Depp is suing Heard, his ex-wife, for $50 million, accusing her of defaming him in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which she refers to herself—without naming him—as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” Heard, in turn, filed a $100 million defamation counterclaim against Depp.The jury will likely issue a verdict next week. But online—where every lurid detail of the trial has not only been dissected and debated, but frequently weaponized against Heard—an inescapable chorus of voices has been declaring her guilt, and his innocence, for weeks. “The pro-Depp, anti-Heard stance is now a dominant trend on social media,” my colleague Kaitlyn Tiffany wrote last week: Across...
When it first started, "Stranger Things" was an ode to '80s kid adventure movies, works by Steven Spielberg and Stephen King that imagined a wild world that was at once scary and awe-inspiring. Now, with its fourth season, the series is getting a whole lot darker. In the aftermath of a period of deaths, breakups, and the acute adolescent pain of growing apart, the new season drops us into a version of Hawkins that's steeped in horror.While the new season of "Stranger Things" isn't heavy on jump scares and balances its darker moments with comedy, it does offer plenty of nightmare fuel imagery. Most of it comes thanks to Vecna, the new monster on the block who has a penchant...
"Stranger Things" has always trafficked heavily in nostalgia, and the fourth season is no different. Creators the Duffer Brothers love to inject references to pop culture from the era into every episode, and season 4 is chock-full of Easter eggs to both the previous seasons and everything popular in 1986. There are simply too many Easter eggs to collect into one article, so we've broken them down episode by episode for your egg-hunting enjoyment. 1986 was a wild year in both history and pop culture. Two major disasters shaped the cultural landscape, with the tragic Challenger space shuttle launch in January and the catastrophic Chernobyl power plant failure in April. "Top Gun" was the number one movie in America. The very first Marvel...
