Peter Fisk’s Blog
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 …
Business Recoded … René Redzepi, the world’s most celebrated chef, opened Noma in his native Copenhagen at the age of 25, with a cuisine that reflects his locality.
October 20, 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 the environment, an …
Business Recoded … Hamdi Ulukaya, the Kurdish refugee who created the world’s leading yogurt brand Chobani, calls himself an anti-CEO and wants to give it all away
October 19, 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 …
Kingfishers and geckos, slug slime and humpback whales … using “biomimicry” to find better solutions to our big challenges inspired by nature
October 19, 2020
“Biomimicry” is the imitation of animals and plants, the models and systems of nature, to inspire new ways to solve complex human problems. An early example was the study of birds to enable human flight. Although never successful in creating a “flying …
Brands as the most powerful, inspiring platforms for change … Overcoming the “circularity gap” to drive innovation, growth and enlightened progress
October 6, 2020
The world is on fire. Global contagions and unstoppable wildfires, social inequality and melting ice caps. Demanding consumers and disruptive technologies, unexpected shocks and stagnating growth. Human CO2 levels need to fall by 45% from their 2010 le …
Business Recoded … Piyush Gupta leads DBS, the world’s most innovative bank, with a strategy to make banking invisible, everywhere and nowhere.
September 14, 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 power of disruptive technologies, and the courage to c …
How will the future emerge? … “tech” companies, led by Apple’s $2 trillion, have soared during the global pandemic … but in reality, today every company is a tech company, from structure to culture
September 14, 2020
2020 has been a phenomenal year. If you’re a tech company. But then, you could argue that in some ways every company should be a tech company, in structure and culture. And human too. As the pandemic hit, Apple’s stock price has looked more like the Bu …
No Rules Rules at Netflix … Reed Hastings describes how he built an extreme culture to disrupt the world of entertainment, in a new book with Erin Meyer
September 14, 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 power of disruptive technologies, and the courage to c …