Education

ANYONE CAN LEARN TO INNOVATE
by Janet Sernack|08 April 2024|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog
The 21st century requires us to unlearn, learn, and relearn a different set of mindsets, behaviours, and skills, and anyone can learn to innovate to acclerate productivity growth, adapt to the new net zero reality, improve cost efficiencies and use...
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DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP CONSCIOUSNESS TO ADAPT, INNOVATE AND GROW
by Janet Sernack|04 March 2024|Education blog, Leadership blog
We are living in a world, with less stability, certainty, simplicity, and predictability, where regional conflicts, societal divisions, and civil unrest have increased globally. Simultaneously, technological-induced disruptive innovations and the climate crisis are impacting every aspect of our daily lives....
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DELIVERING SUCCESSFUL TRANSFORMATION AND CHANGE INITIATIVES
by Janet Sernack|05 February 2024|Coaching blog, Culture blog, Education blog, Leadership blog
Transformation and change initiatives are usually designed as strategic interventions, intending to advance an organisation's growth, deliver increased shareholder value, build competitive advantage, or improve its speed and agility to respond to fast-changing industries, in a disruptive business environment.  These...
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THINKING DIFFERENTLY ABOUT START-UP ENTREPRENEURSHIP
by Janet Sernack|06 November 2023|Education blog, Entrepreneurship blog
As some of you are aware, I am reaching the final chapter of what has been both a fulfilling and a challenging, thirty-five-year career as a serial global start-up entrepreneur. I am compelled to inquire, in the face of the...
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WHY ARE SUCCESSFUL INNOVATORS CURIOUS LIKE CATS?
by Janet Sernack|11 September 2023|Coaching blog, Education blog, Entrepreneurship blog
In last month’s blog, we shared how consciousness, imagination, and curiosity are the fundamental precursors to creativity, invention, and innovation. Where consciousness encapsulates our states and qualities of mind, our capacity for imagination and curiosity are the necessary states of...
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INNOVATION LEADERSHIP IS PARADOXICAL
by Janet Sernack|31 May 2023|Culture blog, Leadership blog
Most of us are aware that both the organisational leadership and cultural paradigms have shifted, due to the accelerating demands of the current global VUCA/BANI operating environment. Requiring us to make sense of and navigate the paradoxical nature of innovation...
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THINKING ABOUT WELL-BEING, RESILIENCE AND CREATIVITY DIFFERENTLY
by Janet Sernack|29 March 2023|Coaching blog, Education blog
In our previous two blogs, we outlined the need, in our chaotic world of unknowns, to reclaim our focus and attention and take charge of our own minds. By reclaiming these, and enhancing self-awareness we have a deeper understanding of...
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BEING IN CHARGE OF OUR MINDS AND ATTENTION
by Janet Sernack|08 March 2023|Coaching blog, Leadership blog
In our February blog, we explored how our focus and attention have been stolen, and how our ability to pay attention is collapsing and described why we need to be intentional in reclaiming it. Yet, many of us are constantly...
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RECLAIMING OUR FOCUS AND ATTENTION
by Janet Sernack|07 February 2023|Coaching blog, Education blog
In 2019 we experienced the shock and the pain that resulted from the globally disruptive global Covid 19 pandemic. To both survive and thrive in the new decade of uncertainty, many people still need help and guidance to connect to,...
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KICKSTART CHANGE AND INNOVATE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
by Janet Sernack|05 January 2023|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog
In our last blog, we described why innovation is transformational, and why, at this moment in time, it is more important than ever to innovate. To take advantage of living in a globalised world, which is interconnected through technologies and...
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