Peter Fisk’s Blog
Inside OpenAI … purpose, power and the reality of working at the frontier of artificial intelligence … what can we learn about strategy and innovation, leadership and culture, and thinking in decades, from OpenAI?
November 3, 2025
To understand OpenAI, you have to start with intent. This is not a company that exists merely to ship software faster than competitors or extract short-term value from a hot technology cycle. Its founding purpose – to ensure AI advances in ways that b …
The Regenerative Revolution … Reinventing business for people, planet and profit … from Acciona and Arket, to Greiner and Interface, Veja and Vestre … going beyond sustainability to create net positive futures
November 3, 2025
In a world of dramatic change – from AI and robotics, to climate crisis and resource constraints, shifting consumer values and social expectation – the business imperative has shifted. Once the goal was efficiency: to do more with less. Then the nar …
The Boardroom Compass … A new board-level retreat exploring how boards can step up in a new world of complexity and change to navigate the future, engage with the business, and guide long-term value creation
November 1, 2025
For over a century, the boardroom has been a place of authority, oversight, and assurance. Directors assessed risk, monitored performance, and protected continuity. In a stable world, this approach was sufficient. But stability is now a luxury few busi …
How to Think like a Futurist … why every business leader needs a future mindset, combining foresight with flexibility … to make smarter choices that deliver a better business today, and tomorrow
November 1, 2025
“Strategic foresight” – or as I prefer to call it, leading the business from the future back – is rapidly becoming a core leadership capability. In a world defined by accelerating change, deep uncertainty and constant disruption, the leaders and organ …
Reinventing Food … 10 transformational trends, and the world’s most inspiring food innovators … from Coccola and Lolipop, to NotCo and TruFru
October 29, 2025
Food is no longer a slow-moving sector defined by incremental change. It has become one of the most dynamic arenas of reinvention in the global economy — shaped by economic pressure, scientific breakthroughs, cultural shifts and radically changing cons …
The AI-Enabled Leader … how AI is rapidly transforming the way leaders think, decide and act … a new leadership mindset, with inspiration from Apple and Inditex, LVMH and Kering, Ferrari and Nvidia
October 28, 2025
AI has evolved from a specialised tool for data analytics into a defining capability of contemporary leadership. Its impact extends far beyond efficiency gains or process automation; AI now fundamentally reshapes how leaders think, decide, and act, cre …
Epic Disruptions … from gunpowder to the printing press, transistors and the Model T, Pampers and the iPhone, steel and SpaceX … how great shocks inspire even greater reinvention
October 20, 2025
Disruption is everywhere. In every market, in every industry, relentless waves of technology are redrawing the boundaries of what’s possible. AI, synthetic biology, quantum computing, renewable energy, autonomous systems — each one carries the power to …
Nike’s Reinvention under Elliott Hill … “Create epic shit, make athletes better” … more urgency, leaner structures, bigger bets, and a sharper ethos … and a future driven by the neuroscience of Nike Mind
October 4, 2025
Nike is no stranger to drama, with multiple reinventions, comebacks, and disruptions. Since its founding by Phil Knight in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports and its transformation into a global cultural and athletic icon, the brand has ridden multiple waves: …
The Nexus Effect … Amazon to Apple, L’Oreal and Jio, Nespresso to Nike, Spotify and Starbucks … how businesses can multiply their impact, and accelerate growth, through the power of connections
October 1, 2025
Download my keynote, and new mini-book The Nexus Effect Business has always been about relationships. From the earliest merchants in Mesopotamian markets to the industrial giants of the twentieth century, success was determined by who could connect sup …
Banking on the Future … DBS in Singapore, Nubank in São Paulo, Revolut in London, WeBank in Shanghai … four very different visions of the next-generation bank
September 28, 2025
The global banking industry is undergoing one of the most profound shifts in its history. After decades defined by regulation, risk management, and branch networks, a new generation of financial institutions is challenging the very foundations of how b …