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,...
by John Horn | Apr 19, 2023 | Adaptability, Co-operative Leadership, Have Better Conversations
Spring is arriving in the Northern Hemisphere. For many folks – especially those of us on the dreary West Coast – the long, sunny days generate plenty of positive vibes. For me, the sunnyness makes me feel quite the opposite because I’m allergic to the sun. This...
by John Horn | Jan 11, 2023 | Adaptability, Campus Career Centre 3.0, Co-operative Leadership, Have Better Conversations
Work puts too much emphasis on process, transactions, technology, outcomes, outputs, and the bottom line. Even though we work with people we really like and respect, we often treat our colleagues differently on the job than we do our friends. Somewhere along the way...
