Peter Fisk’s Blog
Welcome to Alibaba’s global headquarters … in China’s futuristic city of Hangzhou
December 2, 2018
Welcome to Hangzhou. Home to Asia’s most valuable company Alibaba, and its enormous headquarters campus. The eastern Chinese city, capital of Zhejiang Province, is a modern and also home to 9.1 million people, with building work everywhere. It is fierc …
Alex Osterwalder joins me to build “the invincible company” at the Thinkers50 European Business Forum
December 1, 2018
Over the past 16 years, Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur have been dedicated to a single mission: how to help companies continuously reinvent themselves. They created some incredibly useful tools and methods to deal with this challenge, most famously …
Pablo Isla, CEO of Inditex … the humble Spaniard is the world’s best performing CEO of 2018
December 1, 2018
The world’s business leaders face a diversity of challenges – demanding customers, relentless competition, profit-hungry investors, political and economic headwinds. Yet their companies have shown a remarkable ability to sustain momentum. In this year’ …
Future Running … how the running sportswear market evolved from Adidas v Nike into a much more vibrant marketspace
November 29, 2018
Running shoes used to be a fairly simple choice – Adidas or Nike – with a bit of Asics and New Balance thrown in. My first running shoes were Adidas, back in 1978, although I was soon inspired by the Olympic exploits of Coe and Ovett, to try the swoosh …
The Magic of Storytelling … from movies and books to strategies and brands … inspired by Coca Cola, Nike Women and Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling
November 29, 2018
Pixar is arguably one of the greatest storytellers of our generation. They’ve won 13 Academy Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 11 Grammys. In the business world we use stories for everything from building brands to selling products, articulating purpose and …
Blitzscaling … Reid Hoffman’s lightning-fast path to building massively valuable companies
November 29, 2018
Blitzscaling is the new book from LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman who sold his networking business to Microsoft for $26.4 billion. At its core, the concept of Blitzscaling is about growing at a rate that is so much faster than your competitors that m …
How can a business break free of its incrementalism? Develop a strategic narrative. Break the bottlenecks. Define future KPIs
November 28, 2018
How can a business break free of its incrementalism, to dream bigger, to reinvent, to excite its people and customers? The fundamental problem we face say the authors of Leading Transformation—Nathan Furr, Kyle Nel, and Thomas Zoega Ramsoy—is our tende …
The power of distinctive words … exploring the awe of duende, the search for saudade, and the beauty of wabi sabi
November 28, 2018
As an author and speaker, I love the power of an unusual, distinctive or inspiring word. In particular words that are unique to a certain language, a concept that is deeply embedded in a culture, and cannot be simply translated into another language, b …
Travel Gamechangers … reinventing the world of business travel, and how companies use it to innovate and grow
November 27, 2018
I spend my working life travelling … as a keynote speaker I travel the world, to the most interesting – sometimes incredibly glamorous and occasionally quite dangerous – places. Usually it’s for a one hour keynote, so my time to see the location is q …
Upcycling … reinventing fashion to be more sustainable, interesting and unique … inspired by Colombia’s Agua Bendita and Spain’s EcoAlf
November 26, 2018
“Upcycling” was a new word to me. Spanish entrepreneur Javier Guyeneche, the founder of a wonderful sustainable fashion brand called EcoAlf, used in almost every sentence. He has a passion for the world around us, and in particular to find ways in whic …