by John Horn | Feb 19, 2025 | Adaptability, Business & Entrepreneurship, Co-operative Leadership
There we were, skipping and laughing ironically through Kitchener-Waterloo’s largest mall. My grad school roommate and current awesome friend, Jim, and I were hilariously lampooning the community building potential of malls by drawing a clear counterpoint to how they...
by John Horn | Feb 5, 2025 | Business & Entrepreneurship, Co-operative Leadership, Leadership
Building the next economy will take a movement. Community builders, educators, economists, urbanists, policymakers, business leaders, cooperators, activists, parents, kids, neighbours, and even a few celebrities must unite to build a better normal through societal...
by John Horn | Jan 1, 2025 | Adaptability, Business & Entrepreneurship, Campus Career Centre 3.0, Leadership
The year 2024 has been a wild ride for worklife, packed with game-changing technologies that are reshaping how we work and all sorts of tinkering with employee value propositions (EVP) from Google to the Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan. Generative AI has become our...
by John Horn | Nov 13, 2024 | Adaptability, Business & Entrepreneurship, Campus Career Centre 3.0
This past weekend was brutal for my physical health. Food poisoning and a nasty flu bug took away my bodily fluids and ability to sleep. In the grand scheme of things this was a minor setback and I was able to recover and perform at an acceptable level as a dad by the...
by John Horn | Jun 12, 2024 | Business & Entrepreneurship, Campus Career Centre 3.0, Creativity
I love coffee. It’s delicious, chock full of life-enhancing antioxidants and fosters connections and collaboration, too. After spending a few weeks in Italy last year, I developed a love of espresso. In addition to the concentrated caffeine boost that a shot brings,...
by John Horn | May 8, 2024 | Business & Entrepreneurship, Co-operative Leadership, Collaboration
Friendship is a fundamental and universal human need. This form of social connection cultivates mutual affection, trust, interdependence, and joy. According to one of modern social science’s longest ongoing studies, the social connections of friendship enrich and even...