by mvboronowski | Dec 9, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
[Editor’s note: sometimes Kurt and I get pretty darn busy with work, life, and Kurt’s lifelong plan to ensure that Johnism becomes the ideology of the next 100 years. For these reasons, we will occasionally copy and paste press releases from cool...
by mvboronowski | Dec 8, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
Last night I had a beer and a chat with a man who is is wise beyond his years. He shared with me some great ideas about decision making in organizational environments, such as charities, social enterprises, businesses, the government, the non-government, and...
by mvboronowski | Dec 7, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Ok, this is the first time (though likely not the last time) I’m going to toot the horn about my employer the Vancouver School Board. Part of the reason I wanted to write this blog post is because there are some truly amazing little communities existing, in many...
by mvboronowski | Dec 5, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
[Editor’s note: I must start by saying that what unfolds below is a team effort – thanks to everyone who has contributed to this list! So, for better or worse, many parts of the world have been recently occupied – and in some places, like Vancouver,...
by mvboronowski | Dec 2, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Last month, in the week leading up to Remembrance Day, Vancouverites were treated to the odd sight of two warships tied up at Canada Place: the Canadian destroyer, The Algonquin and, much more bizarrely, the missile cruiser Varyag, the flagship of Russia’s...
by mvboronowski | Dec 1, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Each year, youth charity organization Mission Australia conducts Australia’s largest formal survey of young people. Over three months each year the survey asks Australians aged 11 to 24 what they value, where they turn for advice and support, what issues concern them,...
