Entrepreneurship

THINKING DIFFERENTLY ABOUT START-UP ENTREPRENEURSHIP

by Janet Sernack|06 November 202306 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...

WHY ARE SUCCESSFUL INNOVATORS CURIOUS LIKE CATS?

by Janet Sernack|11 September 202311 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...

GENDER STEREOTYPES, AGEISM AND WOMEN START-UP ENTREPRENEURS

by Janet Sernack|04 July 202304 July 2023|Culture blog, Entrepreneurship blog

It’s been thirty-five years since I exited my life as a top retail corporate executive, to become a female entrepreneur. This rollercoaster journey includes ten years as one of many adventurous, brave, global women start-up entrepreneurs. It has been a...

WHY IS IT MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER TO INNOVATE?

by Janet Sernack|02 November 202202 November 2022|Culture blog, Education blog

At ImagineNation™ we are celebrating 10 years as a global innovation consultancy, learning, and coaching company. During this time, we’ve identified some of the common patterns that people demonstrate as a result of feeling uncomfortable, frozen, inert, stubborn, and resistant...

TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY – SEEING SELF AS THE CAUSE

by Janet Sernack|05 July 202205 July 2022|Coaching blog, Leadership blog

Taking personal responsibility is an especially crucial capability, for entrepreneurs and innovators to develop in the decade of both disruption and transformation. It involves developing a set of powerful self-awareness and self-regulation skills and is further enabled by being able...

ADAPT OR STALL – THE KEY TO A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS IN A CHANGING WORLD

by Janet Sernack|17 May 202219 February 2023|Education blog, Entrepreneurship blog

In order to succeed in digital marketing, being open to learning and adapting as quickly as possible is crucial to business success and growth. To stall is not an option, so platforms offering information such as courses in MBA in...

TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY – GOING BACK TO LEADERSHIP BASICS

by Janet Sernack|04 May 202226 February 2023|Coaching blog, Leadership blog

I was first introduced to the principle of Taking Personal Responsibility when I attended a number of experiential workshops facilitated by Robert Kiyosaki who is now well known globally as the successful entrepreneurial author of the “Rich Dad Poor Dad” book series....

INNOVATING THROUGH CONSTRAINTS AND ADVERSITY

by Janet Sernack|31 March 202219 February 2023|Coaching blog, Innovation consulting blog, Leadership blog

It’s been almost two and a half years since the Covid-19 pandemic shifted most of us to working virtually and remotely which seriously disrupted most of our business-as-usual behaviours and learning habits. Interestingly, this disrupted our habitual unconscious safety and...

Catalysing change through innovation teams

by Janet Sernack|29 January 202129 January 2021|Collaboration blog, Education blog

What makes Israel so innovative? And what has this got to do with teaming? One of the key discoveries, we made, almost ten years ago, when we relocated to Israel, was the power of its innovation eco-system – the result...

THE PROS AND CONS OF A LEAN STARTUP

by Janet Sernack|19 November 202019 November 2020|Entrepreneurship blog

Guest blog by Claire Wilson ‘Lean’ is the buzzword of the last decade, challenging old school thinking that dictates that a successful business must be resource-heavy to achieve sustainable growth, whilst also giving credence to those who want to launch...

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