by John Horn | Aug 23, 2023 | Adaptability, Futureproof Kids
We should do hard things because they shape us into resilient and confident learners. When we embrace challenges that push us out of our comfort zones, we not only learn more about ourselves, but we also develop the mental fortitude to overcome any obstacle. For all...
by John Horn | Aug 2, 2023 | Adaptability, Have Better Conversations
I’m part of a team that is delivering a big piece of work using agile methodology, which I’ve written about before. With our project moving and changing so quickly we find ourselves reacting to new circumstances and having to improvise on the spot a lot. So it made...
by John Horn | Jul 26, 2023 | Adaptability, Pop Culture Career Advice
Music is a connective force of community. Everyone has at least one playlist. I wrote about the songs on my potentiality playlist a few years ago. Just as a playlist organizes songs, our workweeks should take a playlist approach – “here is my playlist for the...
by John Horn | Jul 12, 2023 | Adaptability, Pop Culture Career Advice
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is struggling to make money in movie theatres around the world because it’s fine, not awesome. The film follows Harrison Ford’s iconic, world-saving, colonially/neo-colonially-problematic, whip-slinging, problem...
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 | May 3, 2023 | Adaptability, Co-operative Leadership, Leadership
In 2018, Oxford Economist Kate Raworth introduced the world to a different sort of doughnut. This doughnut is a visual representation of a sustainable economic system that balances the needs of people and the planet. The inner ring represents the social foundation,...
