by John Horn | Apr 27, 2022 | Creativity, Futureproof Kids, Have Better Conversations
Seth Godin, as he often does, captured our relationship with boredom perfectly in a recent blog post: “…the market has figured out that we simply don’t like to be bored. And so there’s more stimulation, more options and more noise than ever before.” Whether we...
by John Horn | Apr 13, 2022 | Campus Career Centre 3.0, Co-operative Leadership, Creativity, Futureproof Kids
Everyday vitality means cultivating “the feeling of aliveness and energy that lies at the core of well-being.” According to Samantha Boardman, psychiatrist and author of Everyday Vitality, investing in energy inoculates us against disruption, unpredictable hassles,...
by John Horn | Mar 9, 2022 | Campus Career Centre 3.0, Creativity, Have Better Conversations, Leadership
This Wall Street Journal article was bouncing around the Internet earlier this week. CEOs and Executive Directors from Vancouver to Nairobi to Singapore are evaluating the impact of Covid-19 on work, particularly the emerging reality of our “work from anywhere”...
by John Horn | Feb 23, 2022 | Business & Entrepreneurship, Creativity, Pop Culture Career Advice
We tend to remember Indiana Jones as a Nazi-fighting, world-saving, rough-and-tumble adventurer, not as a Professor of Archeology. We tend to remember Erin Brockovich as a feisty, community-minded legal aid who held corporations accountable, not as a single mom. And...
by John Horn | Dec 15, 2021 | Campus Career Centre 3.0, Co-operative Leadership, Creativity, Have Better Conversations
When I was in Italy as a member of Vancity’s Co-operative Study Tour we visited a worker co-op called Kilowatt and I fell in love with the space and its people. The organization focuses on consulting, communication and education that serves social innovation, the...
by John Horn | Nov 3, 2021 | Business & Entrepreneurship, Creativity
Ambidexterity means being able to use our right and left hands equally well. It means being able to hold multiple competing perspectives or realities simultaneously. Hybrid work is requiring all of us to be ambidextrous in terms of shifting between modes of work....
