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34 Books. 1.5 Million Copies. One Remarkable Publishing Adventure. And We’re Just Getting Started

From an eight-week writing marathon in 1993 to a national bestseller, decades of books, and the...

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How Innovation Happens — Lesson #23: Build a Hype Filter

I've been covering the link between future trends and innovation strategies for 30+ years. I went...

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Behind the Books: A New Chapter for Oblio Press and a Long-Overdue Tribute to Christa

I've just relaunched OblioPress.com. On the surface, it's a new home for the books published...

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From the Stage: Legacy Doesn’t Matter

From the stage Opening the EY National Tax Conference in Montreal, I described what I hear in...

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I’ve Spent 33 Years Watching Crazy Ideas Become Ordinary. Here’s What I’ve Learned.

The greatest mistake in predicting the future isn’t getting the technology wrong. It’s...

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Keynote Case Study: M200 — Managing the Disruptive Potential of Artificial Intelligence

For M200’s invitation-only audience of senior risk and legal managers from Fortune 500 and...

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Keynote Case Study: East Penn Manufacturing — AI in the Future of Manufacturing

For East Penn Manufacturing, Jim Carroll looked at how AI, automation and digital systems are...

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I Would Rather Have Questions That Can’t Be Answered

Than answers that can't be questioned. That's the crossroads every curious mind eventually stands...

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How Innovation Happens — Lesson #22: Know Your Two Types of Farmers

I've been covering the link between future trends and innovation strategies for 30+ years. I went...

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From the Stage: Forget the MBA. Get a Master’s in Business Imagination

From the stage Speaking to a dental audience for Cain Watters & Associates, I pushed back on...

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Keynote Case Study: ICON PLC — AI and Accelerated Clinical Trials

For ICON PLC, Jim Carroll explored how AI, data, science and digital infrastructure are reshaping...

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Keynote Case Study: The Home Depot — Employee Health Was Becoming Predictive, Connected and Personalized

Jim Carroll spoke to The Home Depot’s U.S. Benefits Leadership Team, responsible for the...

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Keynote Report: When the Vehicle Changes, the Risk Changes. The Automotive Warranty Business Must Change With It.

A look inside a customized executive foresight briefing for iA Financial Group – Automotive, and...

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How Innovation Happens — Lesson #21: Kill Your Sacred Traditions

I've been covering the link between future trends and innovation strategies for 30+ years. I went...

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From the Stage: The Era of Acceleration

From the stage At the World Government Summit in Dubai, I opened with the most important thing...

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The Jobs of 2036: Nine Careers That Will Emerge as Risk, AI and Governance Are Reinvented

What happens to your profession when machines can make decisions, rewrite their own controls,...

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Keynote Case Study: Verisk: The End Of Reality Changed The Fraud Game.

At the Verisk Insurance Fraud Management Summit in Houston, I explored how artificial intelligence,...

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Keynote Case Study: YPO Gold Houston — Leadership in the Acceleration of AI

For YPO Gold Houston, Jim Carroll explored the acceleration of AI through a leadership lens. The...

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From Excuses to Execution

One mindset stalls. The other accelerates. Same person, same desk, completely different...

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How Innovation Happens — Lesson #20: Don’t Be Motorola

I've been covering the link between future trends and innovation strategies for 30+ years. I went...

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From the Stage: There Are No Barriers to Change

From the stage This was one of my opening moments, set to music, and it captures what I believe...

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Keynote Case Study: Canadian Petrochemical Summit — The Era of Acceleration

The Canadian petrochemical industry operates at the intersection of some of the most complex...

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Keynote Case Study: KPMG Ireland: AI Megatrends. Opportunity And Disruption.

At KPMG Ireland’s leadership meeting in Dublin, I spoke to more than 1,100 professional staff...

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Leadership Insight: The Real Danger for Your Right Now Is Making a 2027 Decision With a 2017 Mental Model

Here's what I've come to realize with my last set of keynotes: the next great leadership crisis...

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The O-Ring Moment

A single physicist, a glass of ice water, and an O-ring explained why the Challenger disaster...

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The 26 Principles, Revisited — #26: Escape Mediocrity — What I Said, and What’s Actually Happening

Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine...

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How Innovation Happens — Lesson #19: Know Which of the Three People You Are

I've been covering the link between future trends and innovation strategies for 30+ years. I went...

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From the Stage: The Dive-In Movie

From the stage One summer, with the kids running out of things to do, I set up an LCD projector...

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Keynote Case Study: Vermont Captive Insurance Association — The Acceleration of Risk

At the Vermont Captive Insurance Association's annual conference, Jim Carroll challenged...

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Keynote Case Study: WorldSkills — The Half-Life of a Skill

For WorldSkills, Jim Carroll explored one of the defining themes of the modern economy: the...

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The 26 Principles, Revisited — #25: The Collapse of Time — What I Said, and What’s Actually Happening

Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine...

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The Future of AI Is Hitting a Copper Wall. The Answer Is Light.

Twenty-six years ago, I wrote about a future in which manipulating photons would transform the...

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How Innovation Happens — Lesson #18: Audit Yourself for Idea-Killing, Daily

I've been covering the link between future trends and innovation strategies for 30+ years. I went...

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From the Stage: Upside-Down Innovation

From the stage When I spent time with Disney, they described how their old innovation model...

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Keynote Case Study: Kwik Fit — The Shop Floor Was Changing as Fast as the Car

For roughly 500 Kwik Fit service managers in Birmingham, Jim Carroll framed the future of...

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Keynote Case Study: Protein Industries Canada — Think Bigger About the Future of Food

Protein Industries Canada brought Jim Carroll to Saskatoon as the closing keynote speaker for its...

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A Kitchen Floor Covered in Broken Spaghetti, That’s Unique Thinking

Nobody puts "played with pasta for three hours" on a resume. But that kind of pointless...

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The Anti-Manual and the Playbook

Laugh at the habits that hold you back. Learn the moves that take you forward. That's the...

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The 26 Principles, Revisited — #24: Trust Capital — What I Said, and What’s Actually Happening

Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine...

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How Innovation Happens — Lesson #17: Ask the Tough Questions

I've been covering the link between future trends and innovation strategies for 30+ years. I went...

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THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO ARE FAST features the best of the insight from Jim Carroll’s blog, in which he
covers issues related to creativity, innovation and future trends.

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Series: 2026 • Megatrends • Forward • Tomorrow