by Janet Sernack | Sep 8, 2025 | Collaboration blog, Learning blog
It was an article in the Harvard Business Review, “Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything,” by Steve Blank, that caught my attention more than ten years ago, and led to the invention of The Start-Up Game™. He described a lean start-up as “favouring experimentation...
by Janet Sernack | Mar 31, 2022 | Coaching blog
I often wonder how some people are great at overcoming procrastination, yet others delay, postpone, or avoid solving problems, and withdraw from making smart decisions, taking calculated risks, or taking intelligent actions? – Why do they become paralysed and...
by Janet Sernack | Feb 2, 2022 | Coaching blog
If you are an executive coach or a personal coach, newly certified or veteran, you have probably come across enough material on coaching and the many nuances of coaching. So, to make things a little interesting, I thought of writing something a little different: What...
by Janet Sernack | Apr 15, 2020 | Coaching blog
How will innovation coaches support leaders to navigate the current Covid-19 crisis – considering that, in a recent article McKinsey “Beyond coronavirus: The path to the next normal” states that: “It is increasingly clear our era will be defined by a...
by Janet Sernack | Dec 31, 2019 | Coaching blog
In 2018, I celebrated the 30 year anniversary of my corporate career exit as a top retail executive at the now-defunct Australian Coles-Myer Group. It was also my 30-year anniversary as a serial entrepreneur, who is now running a global SME culture consulting and...