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 | Feb 10, 2021 | Coaching blog, Courses
The COVID-19 pandemic initiated and accelerated dramatic changes in the way we worked and ran our organisations in 2020. Coupled with disruptive social and political unrest most leaders are investing valuable time and resources in planning how best to extract benefits...
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 | Feb 24, 2020 | Coaching blog
One of the most exciting aspects of living and coaching in an innovation culture, is the creative energy that constantly erupts, causing disruptive bursts to the way people think, feel and act. Especially when it comes to sensing, seeing and solving complex problems,...
by Janet Sernack | Aug 27, 2019 | Coaching blog
In a recent blog, What does it mean to cultivate a fail fast organizational culture we shared what typically happens when people experience failure, and how important it is to uncouple people’s fears about failure and to support and enable them to “normalize” it. How...
