by John Horn | Jul 13, 2022 | Leadership
Seth Godin, as he does, wrote a great blog post about office gossip. Eleanor Roosevelt – allegedly – said that “great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” People talking about people is often referred to as gossip and it can...
by John Horn | Mar 23, 2022 | Campus Career Centre 3.0, Communication, Have Better Conversations
Saying sorry is hard and most of us suck at it. Apologies are uncomfortable, difficult and they can be embarrassing. They can also be healing, transformative and satisfying. They help us have better conversations in our worklife, too. Great apologies are authentic and...
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 | Aug 18, 2021 | Co-operative Leadership, Futureproof Kids, Leadership
The world is burning out and burning up. As organizations strive to enable hybrid work (or work from anywhere) amidst health and climate emergencies, leaders are being asked to do a lot. A former colleague of mine, Ilene, introduced nearly every workshop and...
by John Horn | Jun 2, 2021 | Have Better Conversations, Leadership
Kindness is in all of us. We need more of it in the world today. When I observe fans at sporting events combined social trolls spewing garbage content at everyone from public health officials to women of colour who have opinions/talents, I notice a deficit in...
