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...
by John Horn | Mar 6, 2024 | Business & Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Pop Culture Career Advice
I thought that I’d reflect on some of the things that – long ago and before it was cool – I made The Amazing Spider-Man my most favourite of comic book characters. After seeing the 2012 film about my favourite superhero (here’s my quick review:...
by John Horn | Jul 5, 2023 | Adaptability, Business & Entrepreneurship, 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...
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...
by John Horn | Nov 2, 2022 | Business & Entrepreneurship, Creativity, Futureproof Kids
Human beings are designed for play. It’s a scientific fact. Most adults, however, are too busy or serious to hurl themselves into the joy of play with great frequency, let alone daily. There is a strong business case for playing every day, as building blocks, painting...
