by John Horn | Dec 25, 2019 | Campus Career Centre 3.0, Co-operative Leadership, Leadership
It’s Christmas Day, which is a holiday that is supposed to be synonymous with giving. More likely, if you’re celebrating Christmas today you will be experiencing something that Organizational Psychologist Adam Grant calls “matching” – this is when people give and take...
by John Horn | Dec 11, 2019 | Campus Career Centre 3.0, Futureproof Kids, Leadership
The holiday season is here and our team at The Potentiality is thrilled to share a couple of gift ideas, which is something that we do at this time of year, that inform and inspire your community building choices. Here are some sustainable holiday gift ideas from The...
by John Horn | Nov 6, 2019 | Futureproof Kids, Leadership
For the last few months I’ve been coaching my oldest son’s soccer team. He’s five years old and his teammates are around the same age. As you can imagine, the experience combines adorableness and fun with chaos and frustration. Weirdly enough, some of my learnings are...
by Kurt Heinrich | Oct 23, 2019 | Leadership, Pop Culture Career Advice
The Loudest Voice is an HBO mini-series that charts the rise and fall of Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox News. Played by Russell Crowe in heavy makeup, Ailes is depicted as a ruthless, creepy and strategically brilliant predator. The show is built around several pivotal...
by Kurt Heinrich | Sep 25, 2019 | Leadership, Pop Culture Career Advice
HBO’s hit drama Succession follows the Roy family as they squabble (and backstab) their way to the top of their father’s media empire Waystar Royco. Based loosely on the Murdoch family (with plenty of other business scion source material mixed in), Succession yields a...
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,...