Peter Fisk’s Blog
The BioNTech Story … How Uğur Şahin championed the innovative mRNA platform to create a Covid-19 vaccine, and transform the future of medicine
December 17, 2020
An end to the Covid-19 nightmare of 2020 may be in sight, thanks to the passion and persistence of a Turkish-born migrant, who has championed an innovative approach to vaccine development, which he believes could transform the future of medicine. Uğur …
Accelerating the Future of Work … How Covid-19 has changed priorities, accelerated technologies, and our shift to new ways of working
December 14, 2020
How has the pandemic shaped the future of work? Covid-19 has accelerated many of the factors that were already shaping where and how we work. The new digitalisation of work practices are familiar to every one of us as we click on to our first Zoom call …
The Future of Learning Organisations … self-organising teams and self-tuning strategies, metaskills and superhumans
December 1, 2020
It’s 30 years ago since Peter Senge published his book The Fifth Discipline and coined the phrase “the learning organisation”. He described it as “a group of people working together collectively to enhance their capacities to create results they really …
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 …