DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP CONSCIOUSNESS TO ADAPT, INNOVATE AND GROW
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by Janet Sernack
2w ago
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. This means that we are living in an age of overwhelm and in a world of unknowns, requiring us all to know how to uncover and eliminate our blind spots, to adapt, innovate, and grow, think and act differently, to survive and thrive within it. This a moment in time that also calls for leaders ..read more
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DELIVERING SUCCESSFUL TRANSFORMATION AND CHANGE INITIATIVES
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by Janet Sernack
1M ago
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 initiatives will typically focus on improving efficiency, and productivity, resolving IT legacy and technological issues, encouraging innovation, or developing high-performance organisational cultures. Yet, according to research conducted over fifteen years by McKinsey & C ..read more
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THINKING DIFFERENTLY ABOUT START-UP ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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by Janet Sernack
5M ago
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 emotionally charged situation emerging from the current Israel-Hamas war, how might we consider, letting go of our collective pain, anger, and hostility to learn new ways of thinking differently about start-up entrepreneurship?  To embrace it as a catalyst for co-creating innovative, supportive, equitable, inclusive, sustainable, and humane environments by nurtur ..read more
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WHY ARE SUCCESSFUL INNOVATORS CURIOUS LIKE CATS?
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by Janet Sernack
7M ago
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 mind that stimulate creativity, all of which propel successful innovators to bring the new to the world differently. Yet, according to a recent article by the Singularity Hub “OpenAI’s GPT-4 Scores in the Top 1% of Creative Thinking”: “Of all the forms of human intellect that one might expect artificial intell ..read more
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IS IMAGINATION REALLY MORE IMPORTANT THAN KNOWLEDGE?
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by Janet Sernack
8M ago
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 than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Why the answer is paradoxical? According to a well-researched and scientific article “Einstein’s most famous quote is totally misunderstood” i ..read more
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GENDER STEREOTYPES, AGEISM AND WOMEN START-UP ENTREPRENEURS
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by Janet Sernack
9M ago
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 very challenging, rewarding, and fulfilling learning journey, where I have been privileged to have the opportunity to impact thousands of men and women positively, and globally through my consulting, learning, mentoring, and coaching practice. Yet, I can’t help wondering how my journey could have been significantly less challenging, and possibly ..read more
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INNOVATION LEADERSHIP IS PARADOXICAL
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by Janet Sernack
10M ago
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 leadership, by developing multiple perspectives to re-think how to respond positively and creatively to the high levels of tension and range of massive disruptions we collectively face in our current high-speed, constantly changing, global operating environments. According to Otto Scharmer in a recent article for Resilience Magazine ..read more
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EXPLORING A CULTURAL TIPPING POINT
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by Janet Sernack
11M ago
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 wander and wondered how this visually stunning and unrivaled British ceremony would impact the nations and realms’ culture and leadership, today and in the future, wondering if, indeed, it is at a cultural tipping point. Where it is believed, by some, that the coronation made “two statements of great importance for today’s world a ..read more
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THINKING ABOUT WELL-BEING, RESILIENCE AND CREATIVITY DIFFERENTLY
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by Janet Sernack
1y ago
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 our focus, attention, intention, and awareness we develop a deeper understanding of the sources of our anxiety and distractions and how to self-manage them. Doing this effectively creates a safe space, to transform the power of our minds and hearts to connect with others, cultivate well-being, harness people’s collective genius, and generate our resilience, by thinking about creativity differently. Transforming fear and alarm We h ..read more
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BEING IN CHARGE OF OUR MINDS AND ATTENTION
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by Janet Sernack
1y ago
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 challenged by very short attention spans, where we can often be found sitting at our desks, dealing with a range of very urgent deadlines with a distracted, and unfocussed mind. Despite being intrinsically motivated to meet our deadlines, and being self-aware of needing to focus on completing the tasks in front of us, many of us often still struggle to disrupt and stop our ..read more
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