Entrepreneurship blog

by Janet Sernack|03 February 201903 June 2019|Entrepreneurship blog

Being an entrepreneur always takes me into interesting and often unexplored territory. Most recently, after the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos drew to a close, Martin Reeves, Senior Partner & Managing Director, Director of the BCG Henderson Institute shared...

Reinventing the Entrepreneurship Game

by Janet Sernack|06 December 201803 June 2019|Education blog, Entrepreneurship blog, Innovation Blog

In my November blog I described how important it is to unleash the power of innovative entrepreneurship in our digital & connected world, by sharing the first set of three lessons learned from being an entrepreneur. In this second blog...

Surviving & thriving in the entrepreneurs game

by Janet Sernack|06 November 201803 June 2019|Entrepreneurship blog

I was shocked to see in my calendar that it’s exactly 30 years since I exited my corporate career as a top retail executive at the now defunct Australian Coles-Myer Group. I also realized that it’s also my 30-year anniversary...

What is driving innovation in Financial Technology?

by Janet Sernack|13 January 201730 May 2019|Culture blog, Entrepreneurship blog, Innovation Blog

Despite the banks (or perhaps, because of them) FinTech (financial technology) is on the rise in Australia. After all, more than half of Australian SMEs have a loan facility of some description, and only 30% are completely debt-free. It’s easy...

Three forces disrupting business as usual!

by Janet Sernack|21 December 201430 June 2019|Entrepreneurship blog, Innovation Blog

I recently participated in the Disruptive Innovation Festival (check it out, at http://thinkdif.co) where I presented an exciting new webinar on "How the lean start-up is disrupting business as usual" introducing the notion of start-up entrepreneurship. Whenever I design a...

Keys to entrepreneurial success

by Janet Sernack|03 September 201430 June 2019|Entrepreneurship blog, Intrapreneurship blog

I am not sure how many of my valued ImagineNation™ community friends and colleagues have ever purchased a completely new, “make believe” apartment “off the plan?” Nor am I aware of any who have attempted such a huge challenge in...

Why embracing disruption facilitates success

by Janet Sernack|01 July 201430 June 2019|Entrepreneurship blog, Innovation Blog

Embracing disruption facilitates success no matter what industry or business game innovators or entrepreneurs play in. As an impressionable young girl, I used to greet my father when he arrived home from work, by asking “How many coats did you...

What motivates entrepreneurs to innovate?

by Janet Sernack|03 June 201430 June 2019|Entrepreneurship blog, Intrapreneurship blog

I have just commenced facilitating the latest Coach for Innovators Certified Program with an amazingly diverse and enthusiastic group of mostly female consultants, academics, facilitators, coaches and start-up entrepreneurs. As I started the program, I found myself being quickly brought...

Surviving the innovation roller-coaster

by Janet Sernack|10 December 201318 June 2019|Entrepreneurship blog, Intrapreneurship blog

I am pleased to be back in unseasonably freezing cold Israel after more than nine weeks of constant traveling along the global innovation superhighway! I spent my time focusing on learning, making distinctions, developing The Start-Up Game™ business, catching up...

Entrepreneurship isn’t learnt at business school!

by Janet Sernack|09 October 201318 June 2019|Entrepreneurship blog, Intrapreneurship blog

It takes enormous passion, deep vision and incredible anti fragility for successful entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship to occur, more than most of us could ever imagine! My recent experience at the recent European Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference in Brussels, last month...

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