“Don’t let mistakes in your past hold back
your chance to make a change for the future!” – Futurist Jim Carroll
by JimCarroll
“Don’t let mistakes in your past hold back
your chance to make a change for the future!” – Futurist Jim Carroll
by JimCarroll
“It’s easy to make excuses for failure. It’s more difficult to define reasons for success!” – Futurist Jim Carroll
For years, I’ve been working out with a personal trainer in order to keep in shape. Training and fitness is all about mindset, and there are some great motivational poster quotes around the gym to keep you focused. The challenge for me is that I study these, and come up with thoughts on innovation while I’m supposed to be doing a routine. This one happened yesterday!
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“Expect velocity. Plan for acceleration. Structure for intensity. Execute relentlessly.”
Back in 2006, I keynoted the Society of Cable Telecom Engineers at their annual conference in Tampa. At the time, YouTube was only just beginning to have an impact, and social networking was still in a nascent stage. It was January — Twitter wasn’t even around!
My job was to alert them that forthcoming trends would mean that they would be faced with the need to accelerate the bandwidth on their networks. I spoke to the trends I predicted in my book of 1999, Light Bulbs to Yottabits, which took a look at the forthcoming world of online video.
My job, as opening keynote, was to get them in the right, innovative frame of mind to deal with an upcoming tsunami of change.
I ended up writing an article for Broadband Magazine, on my keynote theme, Are We Thinking “Fast” Enough? I recently dug the article out the other day with respect to another upcoming talk within the industry.
It still makes for good reading today, starting with the observation that “in this era in which new developments and technology are coming to the market faster than ever before, everyone must become an innovator, whether it be with new business models, skills partnerships or customer solutions.”
Some of the key points I raised are even more critical today:
Run through that list, and ask yourself if that is your industry situation today.
Read the full article below.
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“When the future gets fast, accelerate your imagination!” – Futurist Jim Carroll
by JimCarroll
“Use your imagination to dream of a better world. Use your ingenuity to make one!” – #Futurist Jim Carroll.
‘’ Some of the greatest inventions of our time have come from people who have set out to solve the challenges of our time, having to do with #healthcare, #climate, #energy, #hunger, #poverty, #tolerance and #diversity. Passion drives their purpose; unique thinking gives them their solutions!’’
by JimCarroll
It’s about time someone starts to talk about the future implications of the new world history that we are now watching unfold.
I decided to write this post after reading of Angela’s Merkel recent comments on the fact that Europe needs to go it alone. Quite clearly, she is voicing what many other political, business, science and other leaders worldwide are thinking.
There are real economic implications in a time in which a nation chooses to turn its back on the rest of the world. The impact likely won’t be apparent for years to come, but clearly decisions are now being made now which will change the global economy in significant ways.
In my mind, as a futurist dealing with the facts of trends, here’s a starting list of what we can expect.
What is happening today matters. The implications are pretty profound.
You should be thinking about this.
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