Peter Fisk’s Blog
What’s your future story? … finding more purpose by defining your legacy … inspired by the All Blacks to leave the world in a better place
February 10, 2022
Every business seeks purpose. At its heart, purpose is about describing how the world is a better place with you. Or, alernatively, to consider how the world would be a lesser place without you. Another way to describe it is legacy. What will you achie …
The Human Value Era … from shareholders to stakeholders, humans as core assets, not costs to minimise
January 22, 2022
In late 2019 the Business Roundtable declared the end of the Shareholder Value Era. Heather McGowan, in her article for Forbes, articulates her belief that the pandemic has shifted us into a new age: the human capital era; and explains how we got here …
Stakeholder Capitalism … Can capitalism be made to work for all of us … and to improve rather than destroy the state of the planet?
January 20, 2022
Can capitalism be made to work for all of us – and to improve rather than destroy the state of the planet? Stakeholder capitalism proposes that corporations should serve the interests of all their stakeholders, and not just shareholders. Stakeholders c …
Future Health … today’s healthcare system is essentially a sickcare system … now is the time for radical reimagination
January 12, 2022
Today’s healthcare system is essentially a “sickcare” system. While there has been huge progress on medical diagnosis and treatments, care delivery hasn’t significantly changed structurally. It’s still largely bricks and mortar where people who are sic …
The Human Element … fuel and friction, and overcoming resistance to innovation and change
January 8, 2022
How do you get people to say yes to a new idea or innovation? In their new book The Human Element Loran Nordgren and David Schonthal, both from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, explore the concepts of fuel and friction. The deep …
How the business world will change in 2022 … meta brands and digital yuan, lunar stations and human creativity … what will you do?
January 4, 2022
2022 will be a year of dramatic innovation. Schumpeter, the Austrian economist, articulated the nature of economic cycles, that every downturn is followed by a new era-defining upturn. Changing attitudes and entrepreneurial mindsets drive industrial re …
How the business world changed in 2021 … “When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?”
January 3, 2022
2021 was a year of acceleration. While Covid-19 raged across the globe, and our physical lives were stagnated, it was a year of changing attitudes and agendas, and of rapid adoption of new technologies. In the very first week of 2021, the first Covid v …
Jump into a new digital world … a decentralised, dematerialised living space … why the “metaverse” is more than hype and games
December 17, 2021
The metaverse is a digital world. Hugely hyped, but also with incredible potential. Think how we engaged with the internet from the edge, interacting with a connected world from the remoteness of our screens. Instead the metaverse enables us to jump in …
“We need the courage to let go of our past” … “business really can change our world” … the European Business Forum 2021
November 16, 2021
Business for a Better World. That was the theme of this year’s European Business Forum, which I was delighted to host once again, and took the form of a hybrid event with live studio audience, plus a much larger remote audience joining online. And it w …
Sustainability at Speed … Business leaders need to spend less time firefighting, and more time creating a better future
November 11, 2021
Great media coverage in FINANS newspaper today … “Sustainability at speed places completely new demands on the business leader … The next ten years will bring greater change than the world has seen for hundreds of years, predicts Peter Fisk, busine …