Peter Fisk’s Blog
Brunello Cucinelli, the King of Cashmere … runs his Italian luxury design house in a fascinating way … including the 8-6 rule, the 20% system, and a 1000-year project
August 24, 2023
Brunello Cucinelli, known as the King of Cashmere, runs his Italian luxury design house in fascinating way. The Italian fashion designer and the founder of the luxury cashmere brand that bears his name. Born on September 3, 1953, in Castel Rigone, Ital …
Imagineering = Imagination + Engineering … How Disney keeps the magic alive, using the power of “plussing” to create more human, engaging, living experiences
August 22, 2023
Walt Disney was never satisfied with making movies. To him, the idea of a theme park gave so much more scope to add value, to be more relevant and engaging with your audience, and to keep the experience alive. “A picture is a thing that once you wrap i …
The tao of Alibaba, the rise of non-human customers, and how to solve the toughest problems … 10 new books I am reading this summer … inspiration for business leaders
July 30, 2023
Lie on the beach, hike in the mountains, sail the oceans … time to relax, step back, recharge … to find new ideas and inspiration for the journey ahead. I love to switch off … but after a few days, my mind is already buzzing with new ideas, initi …
Gymshark … forget digital and physical, hybrid or phygital … instead start with the customer, and how their experience can flow more positively, personally and profitably.
July 21, 2023
Gymshark, the activewear brand created by Ben Francis has grown rapidly over recent years, largely serving a young audience, selling online direct, powered by social influence. It started out by drop shipping bodybuilding supplements online, before bra …
AI just wrote my next book … Quantic Brains, the Spanish team of human brains building artificial brains for books, videos and games
June 29, 2023
This week I met Quantic Brains, a Spanish AI-based start-up which is reinventing the way content is created for books, videos and games. I sat down with founders Manuel Lucania and Julio Covacho, chose a title for my next book, and within 10 minutes it …
15 Druckerisms … the best way to predict the future is to create it … the purpose of a business is to create a customer … and much more
June 22, 2023
Peter Drucker, the Austrian-born consultant turned academic, is often regarded as the father of modern management thinking. He also played a crucial role in the development of consulting firms McKinsey and Bain. Although he authored 39 best-selling man …
Joe Tsai, the new chairman of Alibaba … the billionaire Taiwan-born lawyer, who is a crypto enthusiast, and owner the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, was one of Alibaba’s 17 co-founders
June 22, 2023
Joe Tsai was one of 17 friends who were invited to Jack Ma’s Hangzhou apartment in February 1999, an evening where they developed a plan to create a new digital platform to “revolutionise the Internet industry”. They called it Alibaba. Tsai gave up a H …
Infinite and Invincible … Building a “growth portfolio” amidst relentless change is a journey of projects, innovations and transformation.
June 22, 2023
Shigetaka Komori, former CEO of Fujifilm, had 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 pres …
The Information-Action Paradox … why an abundance of data reduces the ability of business leaders to deal with uncertainty, to make strategic choices, to act on the need to change.
June 22, 2023
Every market is uncertain. Every business leader needs to lead in a blur of change. Volatile, dynamic environments bring new challenges to decision-making. Executives still yearn after stable environments, where the future is predictable, and data abou …
Unleashing your brandemic … how culture drives what we buy, what we do, and who we want to be … insights from Beyonce’s digital strategy, and how the New Jersey Nets became the Brooklyn Nets
June 20, 2023
A brand strategy should should be a clear reflection of the ideologies and beliefs that the company, or product or person, wants to signify. And once we know who we are, we can then target people who see the world the way we do. “Culture moves forward …