Testimonials

Peter moves at warp speed — connecting, creating and collaborating — all while working a serious day job at a major bank.

Productive Accidents is a practical and breath-taking recipe for personal and professional innovation and a richer, rewarding life.

It is a clarion call for multi-disciplinary thinking and cross-sectoral behaviour in solving problems at work, and in the wider world.

This book will challenge you to push far beyond your comfort zone, get involved in giving, and say YES to a far bigger life than you ever imagined for yourself. Plus it will trigger a chain-reaction of Productive Accidents in anyone who reads it.

— Stu Lloyd, Hotheads Innovation, chiang mai Thailand

we’ve all heard of or experienced an accidental chance encounter that has led to something good in our lives. But what Peter is showing through his life and openness to endeavour outside his professional career is truly inspiring.

As with the artist’s mind, every connection is a possibility for collaboration and life is an adventure. These different colours build new pallets and thus the creation of new ideas and projects emerge. The randomness in the connections and those that are connected through the process are like players at a roulette table. You have to place your bet and let the ball go. Every outcome is a chance to learn, grow, meet, and collaborate. This game can’t be played only inside one’s professional setting. You have to enter the gaming room and decide to play with curiosity and eagerness to grow, learn, connect, and create.

My biggest take away is that you can be intentional with this action. Where normally a person might have this happen once a year, once in their life, or every so often. Through pure intention, it can happen many more times — Where will that lead you, who will you meet, what might occur?

This book is a roadmap that guides you to the different cities you can travel that will allow these productive accidents to happen more frequently. peter plays the tour guide in sharing his real-life stories of the people he has met, the places they have taken him, and the collaborations that were made. These productive accidents not only have brought joy into his life but also to his family’s life and countless others.

If you choose today you could go out with a curious mind and see the roads that lead to these productive accidents.

To help you get started on this new life journey, I highly recommend this book for direction and inspiration.

— chris palmore, gratitudespace, Kentucky U.S.A.

I cannot resist analysing this book from First Principles. The Grand Unifying Theory (the theory of everything) still escapes us, but one First Principle of what will be in that theory is the Second Law of Thermodynamics, also referred to as Entropy or The Universal Law. It simply says the universe is expanding; and if it were not it would eventually collapse and cease to exist.

productive accidents is about the human life equivalent of entropy, if we are not personally growing then eventually our lives will collapse. The difference is the expansion of the universe is driven by the Big Bang, and as illustrated so well in Productive Accidents, human personal growth is driven by our willingness to experiment with random connections to other humans.

As I write this I should have been climbing the Inca Trail to Machu Pichu, but COVID-19 got in the way. Because of that cancellation I had the opportunity to read a very good book!

— Ronald Barmby, author, Alberta Canada

In all my years of coaching executives, I rarely meet someone who so lives his passion and philosophy as Peter.

He is a living example of expanding beyond your comfort zone and saying “hell yeah!” to invitations and opportunities.

Peter’s powerful personal examples are inspiring.

— Lance Tanaka, Executive Coach, Hong Kong

Peter is one of these people who make the world a more fun place to be. He seems to have cracked the answer to a big question — the meaning of life. And he is happy to share it in a nice and simple way — life is a fun ride to be enjoyed, and through his new book Productive Accidents he shares some useful tips on how to maximise this adventure, interweaving all aspects of our life.

Peter draws valuable insights from his own experience, so the reading of his book is delightful. Through his serendipitous collection of stories he genuinely taps into the things that make this life special. A perfect read for these times of reflection.

— Oskar Valle, Dear Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Productive Accidents is a positive book which exudes enthusiasm for life and adventure. It encourages everyone to simply have a go.

plant seeds frequently. design Systems as paths to goals. create Traditions for a sense of continuity, familiarity, identity, and comfort

Everyone’s sphere in life has a language around it, as highlighted by the frequent use of alliteration — it’s certainly a collection of continuous coincidences, combining creativity and a curiosity for collaborative conversations connecting communities and colleagues to contribute to cultures and cultivate change.

Productive Accidents also reflects this quote from Clyde M. Narramore — “Every person is worth understanding.”

Congratulations on capturing your adventures.

— Maria Fitzsimons, Uralla, Australia

Reading Productive Accidents is transformative. It shows the way to live life in a way that is generous, open and filled with possibilities. I found myself reframing aspects of my own life as I read.

This is an approach to living that invites connections, collaborations and lots of fun. Peter is a changemaker.

— Margaret O'Brien, Ireland