Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine months into the year I predicted. Don't stay in your lane. The future is happening in the blur…
2026 Principles
I've been covering the link between future trends and innovation strategies for 30+ years. I went back through my blog posts, stretching to 2002, to dig out the nuggets…
How Innovation Happens · Innovation
It's the line I've used more than any other, and here it is in its shortest form. After describing a world where companies that don't yet exist will build products not…
Leadership · Media & Technology
Jim spoke at the NALP Leaders Forum in Costa Rica to several hundred landscape industry leaders about the accelerating pace of change in design, technology, science…
Agriculture & Food · Case Studies
I just finished writing my fourth article this year for Flame, the magazine of the National Franchisee Association. This one is about why 2026 demands bold franchise…
Consumer & Food · Growth Strategy
Jim Carroll's keynote closed the Distribution Contractors Association event in Hawaii with a look at how AI, virtual reality, 3D printing, drones and other technologies…
Case Studies · Construction & Infrastructure
Feynman once spent an evening snapping dry spaghetti, obsessed with why it never breaks clean in two. That is what a curious mind looks like when nobody is watching…
Being Unique
Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine months into the year I predicted. Your new challenge isn't finding the insight – it's filtering…
2026 Principles
I've been covering the link between future trends and innovation strategies for 30+ years. I went back through my blog posts, stretching to 2002, to dig out the nuggets…
How Innovation Happens · Innovation
Speaking to college and university leaders, I ran a live text-message poll, and the results were revealing. Most agreed they weren't positioned for a fast-paced future…
Education · Innovation
Texas Farm Credit brought Jim Carroll to Dallas to challenge an audience with a uniquely important role in the future of agriculture. Many of the people in the room…
Agriculture & Food · Case Studies
AM Best brought Jim Carroll into its 32nd Annual Review & Preview Conference at a moment when the insurance industry was confronting a rapidly expanding risk landscape…
Case Studies · Insurance
