Here's what I've come to realize with my last set of keynotes: the next great leadership crisis isn't simply resistance to change. It's the growing inability to…
Change · Disruption & Acceleration
A single physicist, a glass of ice water, and an O-ring explained why the Challenger disaster happened when the experts could not. Sometimes the simplest demonstration…
Being Unique
Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine months into the year I predicted. Don't be average. Don't be boring. Be bold. Be fascinating!…
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
One summer, with the kids running out of things to do, I set up an LCD projector and surround sound by the pool and we held a dive-in movie for the neighbourhood. I…
Leadership · Retail & Consumer
At the Vermont Captive Insurance Association's annual conference, Jim Carroll challenged insurance and captive-risk leaders to rethink how quickly the risk environment…
Case Studies · Insurance
For WorldSkills, Jim Carroll explored one of the defining themes of the modern economy: the half-life of a skill is shrinking. The keynote addressed how rapid…
Case Studies · Human Capital
Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine months into the year I predicted. The moment between having an idea and executing it is gone…
2026 Principles
Twenty-six years ago, I wrote about a future in which manipulating photons would transform computing. In 2006, I challenged 3,000 engineers to imagine it. Now AI is…
Innovation · Media & Technology
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
When I spent time with Disney, they described how their old innovation model worked for a new movie: design the toys, plan the merchandising, then do the branding. Then…
Innovation · Retail & Consumer
For roughly 500 Kwik Fit service managers in Birmingham, Jim Carroll framed the future of automotive service around EVs, accelerating vehicle technology and increasingly…
Automotive & Transportation · Case Studies
