Peter Fisk’s Blog
Odense, Denmark … creating the 21st century story of business
June 5, 2016
This week I’m back in Odense, Europe’s robotics hub, birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen, and a Danish city that is creating an inspiring vision for future lifestyles and business. I’m here to launch Thinkers50Europe, and to start writing the 21st ce …
Luxury brand innovation … driven by changing consumers, digital channels and new business models
June 1, 2016
Luxury brands need to respond smartly to new key market forces and raise their game when serving the evolving expectations of the luxury consumer, says a new report. With two Swiss companies in the Top 10 – Richemont and Swatch Group – and a total of e …
Why the UK leaving the EU is a really stupid idea!
June 1, 2016
I live in the United Kingdom, and spend more time in other parts of Europe than anywhere else. My descendants came from across Europe (a bit Viking and a bit French), my language and culture is European (Anglo Saxon), my grandparents fought to liberate …
Peak … no human is limited … says a new book on the science and practice of peak performance
May 25, 2016
“In short, the human body is incredibily adaptive … There might be limits, but there is no indications we have reached them yet.” “Peak” by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool is one of the most interesting books both on the science and on the actual met …
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind … What if everything you know is based on rules that are long past their expiry date?
May 23, 2016
What if everything we think we know about how the world works – our ideas of love, education, spirituality, work, happiness, and love – are based on “brules” (bullsh*t rules) that get passed from generation to generation and are long past their expiry …
The Book of DNVB … explaining the rise of the mythical “Digitally Native Vertical Brands”
May 20, 2016
Andy Dunn, CEO of Bonobos (a subsidiary of Walmart), wrote an interesting post on Medium last week, all about brands that are “born online”, with a mindset that puts the consumer at the centre of everything, and therefore the channel and product become …
Tomorrow’s business leaders should not try to imitate the leaders of today … they need a new vision, ideas and styles
May 18, 2016
Today’s young business leaders are poised to outperform their more established counterparts – and that’s not just the usual energy and naivety of youth talking. Today’s young leaders are emerging at a time when forces have converged to broaden people’s …
Superhuman: Will robots replace us, or make us better?
May 18, 2016
The future is not technology, the future is how technology enables us to achieve more. Robots will not replace us, there is no imminent “singularity”, instead new possibilities are enhanced by our extra-human potential. We are all familiar with the tsu …
Exploring 100 disruptive innovators with ARM in Cambridge
May 17, 2016
I’m in Cambridge today, home of some of history’s great science and technologists, but more recently home of ARM, the company that has out-thought Intel in recent years to be “architects of the digital world.” ARM designs the chips inside most of the w …
Harry’s raised $250m, invested $100m in an old German factory, to be the Warby Parker of the $3bn shaving market
May 14, 2016
The co-founders of New York City’s e-commerce startup Harry’s are taking an unconventional path to category disruption–purchasing a nearly century-old factory in Germany. The smell of dying unicorns is in the air on a gray February day in downtown Man …