Peter Fisk’s Blog
Welcome to the Blue Economy of Biomimicry and Doughnuts where Companies are for Good and deliver Net Positive impact … the best ideas on sustainability
August 30, 2022
Sustainability is one of my big topics, and in vogue with every business, yet still lacking effective models for strategic thinking and effective implementation. We all know the challenges. During the last 150 years, we have stressed the oceans, warmed …
Kilian Jornet … the world’s greatest mountain runner, born in a Pyrenean mountain hut, who ran up Everest twice in a week
August 28, 2022
Yesterday I watched Kilian Jornet, the world’s greatest mountain runner, run slowly through the streets of Chamonix. The 34 year old Spanish ultra runner, who is now based in Norway, because the mountains are bigger, probably took longer for his last k …
Women beat men at most leadership skills … only 6% of CEOs are female, yet women outperform men on 85% of leadership capabilities.
August 23, 2022
The percentage of women in senior leadership roles in businesses is till incredibly, unacceptably low. Not just because its clearly unfair, but also because organisations are missing out on their talents. Only 6.6% of S&P 500 CEOs are women, which …
Terra Incognita … anxieties and inequalities, fragility and sustainability, machines and trust … a fabulous new map of current and future uncertainties.
August 22, 2022
How do you make sense of today’s world of relentless, uncertain change? Perhaps every boardroom needs a futurist in residence. Certainly, the old approach to incremental strategy development has given way to a much more creative and exploratory approac …
Net Positive … Is the world better because your business is in it? … the best ideas from Paul Polman’s seminal book on sustainable business
August 8, 2022
Runaway climate change and rampant inequality are ravaging the world and costing a fortune. Who will help lead us to a better future? Business. These massive dual challenges—and other profound shifts, such as pandemics, resource pressures, and shrinkin …
Ego is the Enemy … putting the greater good above your own vanity … the best ideas from Ryan Holiday’s book
August 8, 2022
I first met Ryan Holiday 4 years ago. We were speaking together at a marketing conference in Istanbul. As host of the event, I was organising the two days, working with all the different speakers, and keeping the audience upbeat and engaged. First up w …
The Upside of Uncertainty … how to embrace uncertainty and transform it into a force for good … tools for competing in a positive VUCA world
August 8, 2022
Many people see uncertainty as negative. It means that you cannot plan like you used to, to predict what happens next based on what happened before, and to continue to use the same approaches to driving business success that got you to today. It puts f …
Invent and Wander … Jeff Bezos’ masterclass on strategy and leadership at Amazon … the best ideas from Walter Isaacson’s book
August 5, 2022
Jeff Bezos’s legacy is phenomenal. Since throwing in his Wall Street job in 1994 and heading west towards Seattle in a VW campervan to launch an online bookstore (which he initially named Cadabra, before changing it to Amazon), his journey has been uni …
Atomic Habits … how tiny changes can have remarkable results … the best ideas from James Clear’s great productivity book
August 5, 2022
People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. James Clear describes another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions: doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes ear …
“Deep Work” … the ability to focus in a distracted world … the best ideas from Cal Newport’s award winning book
August 5, 2022
“Deep work” is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Lock yourself away in a room to focus completely on one task. Avoid shallow work, keeping busy, multi tasking, being distracted. Deep work is a skill that allows y …