Peter Fisk’s Blog

Thriving on Overload … the defining capability for success today is the ability to thrive on a superabundance of information … here are 5 powers for success in a world of exponential information

March 19, 2023

Massive information overload is the defining feature of our age. The incessant deluge threatens to drown us, yet within its excess lies almost everything of value today. The capacity to thrive on limitless information is now the single most important c …

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Enabling people to achieve more … Brands used to be marks of ownership, but today are built around the passions of like-minded consumers, enabling them to achieve more, and multiply their impact.

March 18, 2023

Cycling is a sport of connoisseurs. They love their coffee, in France they love their pastis, and they love their bikes and gear. Riding at the heart of a Sunday morning peloton is as much social as physical, and so Rapha designed to create premium cyc …

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Corporate Pioneers … while most leaders play politics, some leaders step up to become genuine pioneers … to explore and shape the next frontiers

March 6, 2023

Download Peter Fisk’s keynote “Pioneers and Transformers” for Airbus, March 2023.   I work with many organisations – typically their boards and executive teams – to help them explore, define and shape their futures. A typical project might start with ” …

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The Paradoxes of Innovation … … the paradox of ideas, bringing together two opposing concepts … the paradox of process, looking beyond the machine

March 6, 2023

Thomas Edison said “I have not failed 10,000 times, I’ve successfully found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” In writing my latest book, Business Recoded, I’ve explored many fascinating stories of our changing business world, discovered some incredible org …

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The Physics of Noseriding … “one of surfing’s peak moments: part fluid dynamics, part magic” … Patagonia gets passionate about surfing’s fluid dance

March 5, 2023

The noseride is one of surfing’s peak moments: part fluid dynamics, part magic. But how does noseriding actually work? What makes this suspension between sea and sky even possible? Patagonia’s short movie “The Physics of Noseriding” explores the questi …

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The Human Algorithm … a digital anthropological view of how technology is changing the way in which we engage with each other, business, and the world

March 2, 2023

ChatGPT has dominated the tech headlines of recent months. The OpenAI interface has become a symbol of progress for the ways in which knowledge is evolving, and challenging human minds. Of course AI is all around us. Wake up to check your health on you …

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Achieving Peak Performance … find your future flow … play to your strengths … build endurance and agility … have resilience, and be inspired by Invictus

February 21, 2023

Imagine that you are an Olympic athlete in the midst of competition. As you prepare for the greatest race of your life, you imagine the moments ahead, anticipate what might happen, consider alternative strategies. And maybe just dare to dream. In reali …

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How to be ingenious (inspired by Takashi Murakami) … What is imagination, creativity and innovation? … And where do the best ideas come from?

February 21, 2023

Takashi Murakami is often called the next Andy Warhol, fusing high and low art, combining ideas from both Japan’s rich artistic heritage, and its vibrant consumer culture. But whilst the American icon created multi-million dollar works of art, Murakami …

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Winning in the Market Matrix … Amazon disrupts fashion, Alphabet disrupts travel, Apple disrupts healthcare … as boundaries blur, markets evolve into multi-dimensional, liquid spaces

February 21, 2023

Keanu Reeves described his 1999 movie “The Matrix” as a wake-up call to the speed of our changing world. Two decades later we can see many of the movie’s themes in our everyday lives – the primacy of the individual, disregard for the old system, anti-c …

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Infinite and invincible … building a “growth portfolio” that drives transformational change … exploiting today while also exploring tomorrow

February 21, 2023

Shigetaka Komori, CEO of Fujifilm has a mantra, “never stop transforming.” As a result, the Japanese business has created innovative solutions in a wide variety of fields, leveraged its imaging and information technology to become a global presence kno …

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