Peter Fisk’s Blog
Selemon Barega … time for Ethiopia’s next super athlete to step up to greatness … Do you have what it takes to raise your game?
January 14, 2019
Selemon Barega is an 18 year old Ethiopian runner, set on becoming the next Olympic champion. On the dirt roads that sprawl outwards from Addis Ababa there are thousands of young men and women who share his dream. In East Africa long-distance running i …
IDEO’s Creative Difference … How able is your business to solve challenges in new, meaningful ways?
January 14, 2019
Companies like Apple, IKEA, and Google work hard to develop the culture, processes, and habits that drive their success. When taken together, these all add up to a capability we call creative competitiveness. It’s what IDEO has spent 25 years observing …
Singapore gaming entrepreneur Min-Liang Tan wants to make Razer one of the biggest brands in the world of entertainment.
January 13, 2019
Singaporean entrepreneur Min-Liang Tan founded one of the world’s largest gaming businesses, Razer in 2005. He was a childhood gamer who made his hobby his business, and was supposed to be a lawyer. Coming from a traditional Asian family, his parents m …
The Hero’s Journey
January 12, 2019
The Hero’s Journey is a classic storytelling structure which can be found in many legends, movies and even business narratives. The phrase was created by academic Joseph Campbell in 1949, and refers to a wide-ranging category of tales in which a charac …
AI enables China’s social credits, Lil Miquela is the end of influencers, and the $500bn potential cannabis market
January 10, 2019
The Most Contagious Report 2018 is a great way to summarise the zeitgeist. The annual snapshot of the world’s consumer markets is both insightful and provocative, exploring the creative and cultural trends that are driving brands and innovation around …
Guanxi … What can we learn from the power of personal relationships in Asian business culture?
January 8, 2019
Guanxi loosely translates as personal connections, relationships or social networks. It implies trust and mutual obligations between parties, and it operates on personal, familial, social, business and political levels. Having good, bad or no guanxi im …
The World in 2019 … ubiquitous AI, authentic realities, blockchain identities, immersive retail and brands mean more
January 6, 2019
After a rollercoaster year of political, environmental and economic change, business and consumers are taking a deep breath. Brands are assuming a more meaningful role in consumers’ lives … becoming civic leaders, advocates, even therapists, driving …
Digital Coffee … Nespresso is driving digital innovation to bring people’s coffee experiences to life
January 2, 2019
Nespresso might never have existed if we hadn’t set ourselves the challenge of making the ultimate espresso. In 1986 the first Nespresso capsule-based system was launched … “Gamechanging” innovation that answered this important business question: “Ho …
The Infinite Game … Most games have finite boundaries, and measures of success … but not business
January 2, 2019
How do great businesses achieve long-lasting success? How can you build long-term value and healthy, enduring growth – to play the infinite game? Do you know how to play the game you’re in? In finite games, like football or chess, the players are kno …
Every breadth you take, every move you make … Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react
January 1, 2019
Your world changes, and so should you. Yet so often we find comfort, security and laziness in staying the same. As human beings we have programmed ourselves to love stability, not change. To avoid testing situations, different and even challenging our …