Peter Fisk’s Blog
How to be disruptive, exponential and superhuman in today’s incredible world …
December 7, 2016
Here is a selection of Q&As from recent media interviews … Your big theme right now is “exponential” … What does it mean, and why does it matter to business leaders? “Exponential” … is all about how business can harness the power of ideas and n …
Amazon launches the easiest, fastest convenience stores ever … a great example of digital-physical meshing
December 5, 2016
Amazon today launches a grocery store without lines or checkout counters. Amazon Go is a 1800-square-foot retail concept store in the company’s hometown of Seattle. It redefines the notion of a convenience store – faster, simpler, easier than ever. The …
Peter’s Laws … The Creed of the Persistent and Passionate Mind
December 4, 2016
This week we’re exploring the power of “exponential thinking” with three days of fantastic workshops and events by the GeniusWorks, and some of the world’s leading business gurus are joining us too. Peter Diamandis has probably done more than anyone to …
From Harvard Business School to Hillside Beach Club … Edip Ilkbahar’s secrets of feeling good
November 25, 2016
7 years ago I met Edip Ilkbahar, a Turkish entrepreneur who told me about his fantastic Hillside Beach Club on the beautiful turquoise Mediterranean coastline. He was redefining the luxury vacation, in terms of service and experience, but also in terms …
Shots of awe … inspired by our exotic, ecstatic, exponential world.
November 24, 2016
Want to be inspired? Visually, dramatically … immersed in an “incredible orgasm of future symbiosis” … which captures the speed, excitement and potential of our changing world? Then watch Jason Silva. Jason is the host of National Geographic Channe …
Threat to thread, sea to shoe … Adidas makes trainers from waste plastic bottles floating in the oceans.
November 19, 2016
Adidas is helping to clean up the Earth’s oceans by using the waste floating around the world to make shoes. The sportswear company has teamed up with Parley for the Oceans, an environmental group that raises awareness of pollution in the ocean, to pr …
Kasper Rorsted … the new Danish CEO of Adidas
November 12, 2016
Kasper Rorsted announced he was leaving Henkel for Adidas in January 2016. Everyone was surprised, he had two years to go on his contract and still a lot to be done at Henkel; Rorsted had successfully raised the prominence of the group’s brands in the …
We reinvented the business book … 48 hours with the world’s publishers in Munich
November 8, 2016
This year’s Future Book Forum brought together many of the world’s leading publishers in Munich on the 3-4 November in an incredible two-day event, enabled by Canon. Reinventing the book. Over the last three years, the event has co-created a vision of …
Creative Disruptors … break the rules, think opposites, give it away free, make unusual connections, go to extremes …
November 7, 2016
My book “Gamechangers” is all about businesses who are shaking up their markets, shaping the future to their advantage. At the heart of this is disruption. The best companies increasingly shape their industries in their own vision. They redesign them t …
Changing the recruitment game … talent platforms, big data and matching algorithms in the new world of work
November 6, 2016
LinkedIn has become the world’s largest recruitment platform. This is partly by Reid Hoffman’s design to find a strong revenue-driving application for his networking site, but also by a realisation of more traditional recruiters, that this is the world …