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IS IMAGINATION REALLY MORE IMPORTANT THAN KNOWLEDGE?

by Janet Sernack|27 July 202301 August 2023|Coaching blog, Culture blog, Leadership blog

Is imagination really more important than knowledge? How does imagination link to catalysing collective innovation and unleashing corporate vitality? When I did my research, I discovered that the answer is actually paradoxical! Albert Einstein famously said "Imagination is more important...

INNOVATION LEADERSHIP IS PARADOXICAL

by Janet Sernack|31 May 202331 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...

EXPLORING A CULTURAL TIPPING POINT

by Janet Sernack|09 May 202309 May 2023|Culture blog, Leadership blog

Like millions of others globally, I watched with fascination, the sensational and striking spectacle of the ceremony, significant symbolism, spectacular artifacts, and rituals at the recent King of England’s majestic coronation. At the same time, I allowed my mind to...

BEING IN CHARGE OF OUR MINDS AND ATTENTION

by Janet Sernack|08 March 202308 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...

RECONNECT AND RESET – IN A CHAOTIC WORLD

by Janet Sernack|01 August 202207 November 2022|Coaching blog, Leadership blog

Meeting face to face, for a lovely lunch recently, with a coaching colleague, we were both shocked to discover how stressed and anxious we were feeling about being asked to deliver live workshops and face-to-face coaching to clients once again...

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...

TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY – CREATING THE LINE OF CHOICE

by Janet Sernack|31 May 202226 February 2023|Coaching blog, Leadership blog

In our last blog, Taking personal responsibility - going back to leadership basics, we described how people’s personal power is diminished when they don’t take personal responsibility for the impact of their behaviours and actions and the results they cause....

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...

GET COMFORTABLE WITH BEING UNCOMFORTABLE

by Janet Sernack|27 January 202219 February 2023|Education blog, Leadership blog

It’s been a tough two years for everyone since the COVID-19 crisis began. Some of us have been hit very, very hard, by the impact of the pandemic exacerbated by the rate of exponential change. As result, many of us...

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