“Opportunity today comes from your ability to innovate, adapt and evolve. Stay static, and you’ll be left in the dust.” Read my new PROFIT article here 
Keynote – The skills crisis
Some months back, I wrote in a column that “one of the most challenging issues that you will face through the next decade will be an increasing inability to access the staff and skills necessary to effectively run your business. Blame it on retiring babyboomers, Generation Y and hyper-innovation.”
Today I will be doing a keynote on the issues and challenges with hiring a skilled workforce, spending about an hour looking at the future….
You can read the original article here 
The Masters in Business Imagination (MBI) Manifesto
Enough already!
Complacency in a time of rapid, disruptive change can be a death sentence – not only for organizations, but for the careers and skills of those who work there! It’s time to abandon the thinking that has had you anchored firmly to the past – and to shift your focus to the future, with enthusiasm, motivation and imagination.
You can do this by abandoning any pretence that the skills of yesterday will be important tomorrow. Figuratively and literally, it is time to move beyond the thinking that has led us to a world of MBA’s – Masters of Business Administration – and focus upon the critical skill that will take you into tomorrow.
The world doesn’t need more administrators. It needs more MBI’s – Masters of Business magination.
Read more in my MBI Manifesto.
Fostering creativity
One of my most recent CAMagazine columns focuses on creativity. Although I spend my time advisiing major organizations on trends, innovation and future issues, I also happen to be a professional acocuntant by background!”When I started my career …. I quickly realized I might be different from everyone else…..Over the years, I’ve come to realize that part of the fuel that fires my passion for work is my intense curiosity.”
I go on to note that “one way of fostering creativity is to use the Internet as a window into the soul of creative people…..” [ read article ]
Innovation, frogs and the future
A whirlwhind of activity over the last few weeks, with keynotes for Verizon in Orlando on how to instill an innovation culture; several sessions for SAP in Atlanta and San Jose on how to become a more strategic midsized organization; a keynote for the Canadian Horticultural Assn and the Canadian Lumbermen’s Association, as well as the Utility Telecom Providers Assoication. Next week, a keynote for the First Nations Education Conference in Quebec City.
Techvibes Massive Tech Conference and Expo – Vancouver
I’ve been asked to keynote this event on March 30th. My session description: “We live in an era of unprecedented and relentless change. The emergence of China as a super-power; hyper-innovation and business market turmoil; constant career change and rapid scientific advances. Competition is changing overnight, and product lifecycles often last for just a few months. Permanence has been torn asunder. We are in a time that demands a new agility and flexibility: leaders must have the skill and insight to prepare for a future that is rushing at them faster than ever before. Join international futurist, trends and innovation expert Jim Carroll, as he shares his insight into the key methods by which organizations are leveraging technology in order to compete effectively in the rapidly changing economy of the 21st century.”
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