Over the years, I've done a lot of talks for groups of economic developers on the overall theme, "Where's the growth?" I cover a wide variety of trends that are driving…
Construction & Infrastructure · Event Highlights
“The future you are looking for is often right in front of you!” - Futurist Jim Carroll When I was small, I remember that my mom could never find her glasses, and so she…
Daily Inspiration
“Stop making the same mistakes. Make some new ones!” - Futurist Jim Carroll I heard someone make this comment the other day; it was in the context of how to achieve some…
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“What part of ‘it’s inevitable’ did you not understand?” - Futurist Jim Carroll People are aware of many disruptive trends, but then go into denial as to their…
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Just over 18 months ago, I opened the annual meeting of the United Soybean Board in St. Louis, a group that represents most of the US soybean industry. I was on stage…
Agriculture & Food · Disruption & Acceleration
This global consulting firm brought together 200 executives of one fo their top banking clients, for an intense days-long leadership program, built around the themes of…
Event Highlights · Event Highlights - Financial
If you are going to invest $750 million in building a state of the art hospital for your community, how do you know what should go in it? What it should look like?…
Event Highlights · Event Highlights - Healthcare
Deloitte brought me in to address leadership in an era of disruption, transformation and acceleration. The issue was not simply that organizations were facing more…
Case Studies · Professional Services & Associations
“Long term success comes from repeatable failure!” - #Golfer Jim Carroll It should say REPEATED failure but I will stick with what I posted LOL!!!!!!! I had my best…
Daily Inspiration · Golf & Sports
“You knew what you needed to do, so why did you do what you did?” - Futurist Jim Carroll As a futurist, I’ll admit I’m often mystified by the future! As in: why would a…
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“If you keep listening to the same old people, you’ll end up doing the same old things!” - Futurist Jim Carroll People get stuck in a mono-culture, a sameness of being…
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“The best method to achieve success is to focus on the results of your early failure!” - Futurist Jim Carroll I’ve got a brand new set of golf irons - Titleist AP3’s -…
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