Rethink it!
It’s about asking yourself three questions – what can I do to run the business better? Grow the business? And most important, transform the business!
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by JimCarroll
“It’s better to be inspired by the scope of the opportunity than to be overwhelmed by the speed of the change!” – Futurist Jim Carroll
Many people feel battered and bruised by the speed of change that is occurring around them.
I see this regularly in the text message polls that I run while on stage. One of the first questions I put to the audience is how well they feel prepared for our fast future.
It’s pretty much guaranteed that the majority answer will be “not at all prepared.” People are overwhelmed by the speed of the change around them, the scope of the challenges it presents, and the disruption that it will create.
The result is that they spend more time worrying about the potentially negative implications that the positive opportunities it presents.
That’s a bit of a problem!
Shift your focus! Don’t view a trend as a threat to be feared, but as an opportunity to be pursued.
And don’t let the speed of change scare you – ride it like a surfer rides a wave, a race car drive navigates the course, a skier chooses the perfect line.
It’s better to have a strategy for acceleration than to try to slam on the brakes!
Because one thing is certain – the future is only going to become faster!
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A few years ago, the global genetic pharmaceutical company giant Genentech had me in for a talk on the future, disruptive innovation and more.
The followup Q&A session led to an answer which you might not expect! Watch and learn why!
And then ask – how do you rank on your attitude towards innovation?
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“Today’s plan? Tomorrow!” – Futurist Jim Carroll
Good morning from Morocco!
We arrived yesterday after a long travel day; later this week I’ll be the opening keynote speaker for a major conference.
Have you ever noticed the posters with quotes that the banking giant HSBC features on various jet-bridges around the world?
I do!
I’m the guy who is often stopping part way down while boarding in order to take a picture of a few because they’ve grabbed my motivational imagination!
And certainly this particular quote : “Today’s plan, tomorrow” has been resonating with me for a while, since it pretty much sums up what I’ll cover on stage tomorrow, next week, and next year!
The future is coming at us with staggering speed, and it’s full of surprises, twists and turns, disruption and opportunity.
Promise and peril.
And it’s up to you as to what you what you are going to turn it into! That’s why you need a good plan, an overview, a roadmap, a sense of direction.
And that’s why my audience later this week – many from throughout emerging economies in Africa and Asia – will get from my keynote later this week!
by JimCarroll
Small is the new big, and someone is going to make a lot of money off of small trucks.
Why? Because as the future happens, it happens unevenly. So there will be a bunch of people innovating around last mile delivery with the ongoing dominance of the Amazon economy.
I explain why in this short clip of a Q&A after my keynote in Muscat, Oman 1 year ago today the global IRU World Congress.
The part where I mention New Orleans?
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“If you can’t handle the truth, you can’t handle the future!” – #Futurist Jim Carroll
There are lots of people living in a reality crisis. It won’t end well for them – and as we’ve seen already, will have a profound impact on the rest of us.
I know that when I’m up on stage and talking about the future & trends, there are those in the audience who just wish that I would go away.
They’d prefer their industry stay the same, that new competitors just disappear, that they can just keep on selling what they’ve always been selling, in the same old way, with the same old value proposition.
I’m basically offering up to them the truth – the fact that all of those things are going to change, and in pretty dramatic fashion at that.
I’m up there because I’ve been brought in by their CEO or someone else to give them a cold, stark reality check – and then to offer up an outline of a path forward.
I know there are some who won’t listen, because they’ve made the decision in the last few years that they’d prefer to toss reality out the window in order to pursue their own ill-conceived view of the future.
Reality is meaningless to them, facts don’t matter, and science is a hoax.
Of course, one day they’ll wake up to see their job disappear, their company go bankrupt, and their industry go upside down. They’ll take a look around and whine, ‘no one told me this was coming!”
Well, actually, we did!
The reality crisis extends beyond these issues. Consider healthcare, and my post “The Emerging Healthcare Reality Crisis.”
Here’s what I wrote:
“Clearly there are vast sections of the population today who do not believe in science. They don’t believe in facts. They don’t believe in much other than what they want to believe in.
Their belief system will increasingly drive their attitude and understanding of their healthcare circumstances.”
And then I said: “Many will die an early death.” A blunt statement? Yes.
A reality? More than likely.
The reality crisis is becoming one of the defining trends of our time!
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