Peter Fisk’s Blog
Business Recoded … Hooi Ling Tan was studying at Harvard when she co-created Grab, the $10bn South East Asian super-app where she is known as “the plumber”
November 27, 2020
In an exclusive extract from my forthcoming book Business Recoded, meet one of the most inspiring business leaders, shaking up today’s world. She embraces the opportunities of relentless change, the power of disruptive technologies, and the courage to …
Business Recoded … Anne Wojcicki is decoding the human genome and recoding the future of healthcare with 23andMe
November 27, 2020
In an exclusive extract from my forthcoming book Business Recoded, meet one of the most inspiring business leaders, shaking up today’s world. She embraces the opportunities of relentless change, the power of disruptive technologies, and the courage to …
Business Recoded … 10 years ago Pat Brown set out on a mission to eliminate animal-based foods, creating the Impossible Burger that sizzled and tasted better than meat
November 26, 2020
In an exclusive extract from my forthcoming book Business Recoded, meet one of the most inspiring business leaders, shaking up today’s world. He embraces the opportunities of relentless change, the challenge to realign business with society, and the co …
Thinking outside the building … how you can make more change from the outside than inside, says Rosabeth Moss Kanter
November 11, 2020
The biggest challenges face by business, or indeed society, cannot be solved by a few people working in traditional organisations. They can be better addressed by breaking out of traditional approaches and collaborating with others. Rosabeth Moss Kante …
Business Recoded … Katrina Lake uses AI to send you a box of clothing each month, which she hopes is perfect, but will learn more if it’s not.
November 2, 2020
In an exclusive extract from my forthcoming book Business Recoded, meet one of the most inspiring business leaders, shaking up today’s world. She embraces the opportunities of relentless change, the power of disruptive technologies, and the courage to …
The best leaders are great coaches … So what can you learn from the world’s best sports coaches, people like Patrick Sang, the coach of world record breaker Eliud Kipchoge?
October 30, 2020
There is so much about leadership that we can learn from sport. It’s popular to talk of leaders as coaches today. Most business leaders here that and think it all takes is an occasional sit down for a performance review. But think about sports coaches. …
Enhancing our minds and bodies, from exoskeletons to ethical dilemmas, Amex and Burberry, Darktrace and Rare Carat … Exploring the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence
October 29, 2020
Working in the UAE recently, I was invited to meet some of the nation’s leaders to discuss the impact of technology on future trends. I arrived at UAE’s new Ministry of Possibilities in Dubai to be greeted by a robot, and was soon immersed inside a mer …
Business Recoded … Cristina Junqueira launched Brazil’s innovative Nubank while pregnant with her first child, and decided to prioritise women and equality
October 27, 2020
In an exclusive extract from my forthcoming book Business Recoded, meet one of the most inspiring business leaders, shaking up today’s world. She embraces the opportunities of relentless change, the power of disruptive technologies, and the courage to …
Gamechangers Chile … Algramo’s sustainable tricycles to Cornershop home delivery, Jooycar insurance and Jeff Bezos’ NotCo plant food … finding inspiration with Banco Bci in Santiago
October 25, 2020
Crisis and downturns are the moments of shake-up … when companies drive innovation, and entrepreneurs disrupt markets. Now is the time to look forwards not back. “The best way to predict the future is to create it” said Abraham Lincoln. The best oppo …
Rocket scientists imagine the unimaginable and solve the unsolvable. They know that the rules aren’t set in stone, the default can be altered, and a new path can be forged.
October 23, 2020
The engineers and scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have a strange tradition. At crucial moments in every space mission, they chomp on peanuts. This phenomenon began when a Ranger spacecraft successfully launched after a long run of failur …