by John Horn | Jan 12, 2022 | Leadership
The right thing for your craft, your community, and your soul is to move from isomorphism to youniqueness. Year by year humanity embraces monoculture like agribusiness plants monocrops. Consequently, we have a lot of corn, and we have a lot of Marvel content. When we...
by John Horn | Jan 5, 2022 | Co-operative Leadership, Learning & Thinking
Work is the purposeful application of energy to complete a task that creates value for a community. The value that we create is different based on the needs of our environment and its people. Finding your values will help you produce better work (and create more value...
by John Horn | Dec 29, 2021 | Co-operative Leadership, Have Better Conversations, Leadership
A new year brings opportunity for reflection and intention-setting. 2021 was one of the most disruptive years in modern memory. 2022 looks poised to get up out of its seat, look 2021 in the face, and say: “hold my beer.” Most of what the year ahead throws at us will...
by John Horn | Dec 22, 2021 | Adaptability, Futureproof Kids, Have Better Conversations
If I’m being honest, there isn’t much to celebrate on the West Coast of Canada these days. The pandemic/endemic is here, restrictions are being implemented, and lockdowns are looming. I feel for everyone who is enthusiastically looking forward to social connections...
by John Horn | Dec 15, 2021 | Campus Career Centre 3.0, Co-operative Leadership, Creativity, Have Better Conversations
When I was in Italy as a member of Vancity’s Co-operative Study Tour we visited a worker co-op called Kilowatt and I fell in love with the space and its people. The organization focuses on consulting, communication and education that serves social innovation, the...
