by John Horn | Apr 3, 2024 | Campus Career Centre 3.0, Collaboration
Meetings are a necessary evil in most workplaces. Even though meetings are supposed to enable information sharing, facilitate decision making, and foster meaningful connections, we probably feel the soul-destroying experience of poorly managed meetings at least once a...
by John Horn | Nov 15, 2023 | Leadership, Pop Culture Career Advice
Last Friday night Kurt and I saw Captain America: Civil War. The summer’s hottest movie taught us a lot about international diplomacy, teamwork, spandex, friendship, and ourselves, too. Here are five professional lessons from Captain America: Civil War that you can...
by John Horn | Sep 13, 2023 | Co-operative Leadership, Collaboration, Pop Culture Career Advice
In their excellent book, Laziness Does Not Exist, Dr. Devon Price argues that the myth of the heroes journey highlights how individualistic problem-solving and world/galaxy-saving is wrongly elevated in pop culture. While I take issue with some of Price’s...
by John Horn | May 31, 2023 | Co-operative Leadership, Collaboration, Have Better Conversations
Something that I’m learning about myself is how much I value dissent and debate on teams. To be honest, I need someone to disagree with me, challenge my thinking and/or question my decisions before I can really trust them. Dissenters “cut through group think and...
by John Horn | Mar 22, 2023 | Business & Entrepreneurship, Collaboration, Have Better Conversations
The purpose of so many organizational teams, like innovation labs, and startup ecosystems, like Silicon Valley, is to disrupt the status quo. I’ve written about why we need to disrupt our workplaces and how to do it. The thing is that when the status quo is disrupted...