Peter Fisk’s Blog
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
What’s your future potential? … How your everyday behaviours can transform the opportunities that lie ahead, for you and your business
February 21, 2023
As 1999 ended, optimism was sky high as a new millennium of possibilities approached. For me it was particularly exciting as my first child, Anna, was born just weeks before the start of 2000. As clocks chimed to ring in the new year, my wife Alison an …
Creating new market spaces … Markets can be defined however you want, framed in your own language, rejecting old models like B2C and B2B, focused on enabling customers to achieve more.
February 18, 2023
The Middle East is a fascinating yet bewildering place for many foreign visitors. Whilst it is mostly welcoming and safe, it has grown over recent years with a jumble of traditional culture and western influence. Working in Kuwait City recently, I vent …
Change drives opportunity … What are the world’s 50 most significant opportunities, emerging from the 10 megatrends, shaping our future?
February 15, 2023
Change drives opportunity. Megatrends are the most powerful forces shaking up and rapidly redefining our world. From socio-demographic tsunamis (45% increase in global over 60s by 2030) and economic shifts (Asia’s $10 trillion new middle class) to scie …
Turkey’s Earthquake … one of the worst natural disasters of this century strikes a place of courage and resilience … sana sevgilerimi gönderiyorum
February 8, 2023
On Monday I landed in Istanbul for a two-day work trip. 4 hours later, the earthquake struck. 4am. It was 1000 km away, I felt nothing from my hotel bed. At breakfast, a few hours later, people were staring intently at their mobile phones. I didn’t hav …
Patagonia, maker of those wonderful fleeces, realised it had a problem … and collaborated with Samsung to eliminate micro-plastics, 35% of the world’s plastic waste
February 2, 2023
8 years ago, a team at outdoor clothing brand Patagonia, with a mission to “save our home planet” started to study the environmental impacts of micro plastics. With every load of laundry, millions of microfibres, each less than 5 mm long, wash down the …
Fashion Recoded … 2000 gallons of water to make a pair of jeans is not sustainable … time to slip on your mushrooms, and 3D print your future shoes
January 24, 2023
The fashion industry produces almost 20% of the world’s wastewater and is responsible for 2-8% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations. Natural fibres like cotton and wool require significant land and water; and synthetic fi …