by John Horn | Sep 4, 2019 | Campus Career Centre 3.0, Co-operative Leadership, Leadership
Dear Vancity Interns (specifically those of you from the 2019 Community Leader Internship Program), Thank you, good luck with your next steps, and holy crap you are a talented group of human beings. Last Friday you completed your internship experience with Vancity,...
by John Horn | Jun 20, 2018 | Co-operative Leadership, Learning & Thinking
For the last two weeks I’ve been exploring the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy with my colleagues from Vancity. Our home base was Bologna, the region’s capital, which is the epicenter of the co-operative movement and in possession of Europe’s oldest university....
by John Horn | Feb 28, 2018 | Business & Entrepreneurship, Co-operative Leadership, Communication, Have Better Conversations
Sharing a compelling vision for your organization’s year ahead, your team’s work priorities or your family’s vacation is a differentiator. When a community clearly understands why something is happening and how it will unfold, shit gets done and people have fun doing...
by John Horn | Jan 3, 2018 | Co-operative Leadership, Leadership
Every January our team at The Potentiality engages in our New Year’s tradition of making public commitments about how we will realize our potential as professionals, parents, partners, and human beings. For 2018, Godfrey, Michael, Kurt, and I are leveraging our...
by John Horn | Oct 18, 2017 | Business & Entrepreneurship, Co-operative Leadership, Leadership
Co-operatives are an underutilized model for running an enterprise. October 16-20 is International Co-operatives Week and I work for one of Canada’s pre-eminent co-ops, Vancity Credit Union. I am quite biased in my thinking that the world needs more co-operatives. I...
by John Horn | Apr 26, 2017 | Campus Career Centre 3.0, Co-operative Leadership, Leadership
A few things happened last week. My wife and I watched Mad Max: Fury Road on Netflix (it’s really good) and Rachel Nuwer wrote a depressing article for the BBC Future about how Western Civilization could collapse. Facts are facts and there is a probably a slightly...
