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Daily Inspiration: “Don’t be fearful of the unknown. Be fearful of your fear!” 

"Don't be fearful of the unknown. Be fearful of your fear!" - Futurist Jim Carroll It's...

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Daily Inspiration: “Any trend of significance can be massively transformative and stunningly fraudulent at the same time!”

"Any trend of significance can be massively transformative and stunningly fraudulent at the same...

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Video: Just Me and a Few Thousand Friends @Microsoft

Disruption is real, it’s big, and it’s happening faster than you...

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Daily Inspiration: “Every smart company eventually does a stupid thing! It’s not too late to avoid your fate!”

"Every smart company eventually does a stupid thing! It's not too late to avoid your fate!" -...

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Video: The Reality of Disruption – The Trends that Define Your Future!

Disruption is real, it’s big, and it’s happening faster than you think. Futurist Jim Carroll...

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Daily Inspiration: “”Today’s gamer is tomorrow’s virtual project manager!”

"Today's gamer is tomorrow's virtual project manager!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Farmville...

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The Future? Your Attitude Matters! (Video)

How do you approach the future? What's your attitude towards change? What are you doing to align...

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Keynote: Ammega Customer Leadership Summit: The Disruptive Trends Transforming Manucturing

Ammega is a world leader in power transmission, lightweight processes, conveyor belting, and fluid...

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Daily Inspiration: “With accelerating change, your ability to ignore the future is more than directly inverse to the impact it will have on you!”

"With accelerating change, your ability to ignore the future is more than directly inverse to the...

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Daily Inspiration: “Analytical unpredictability is often a magical combination for creative success!”

"Analytical unpredictability is often a magical combination for creative success!" - Futurist Jim...

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Keynote: Ammega Customer Event – The Future of Manufacturing, Georgia

Trade show spending is shifting - this manufacturing company decided to invest its traditional...

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Daily Inspiration: “You’ll get the future right if you get the timing right!”

"You'll get the future right if you get the timing right!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Here's a...

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The Future Belongs to Those Who Are Fast!

I'm on stage in Las Vegas, opening the annual conference of the National Fire Protection...

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Rethinking Innovation: Sometimes, it’s Not What You Think It Is!

I do a lot of Fortune 1000 leadership events - and it's important that my leadership keynote speaks...

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Daily Inspiration: “If you are too busy making time for excuses, you’ll never find time for success!”

"If you are too busy making time for excuses, you'll never find time for success!" - Futurist Jim...

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Daily Inspiration: “Abandon your slow. Structure for speed!”

"Abandon your slow. Structure for speed!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Maybe you need to have a...

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Mastering Generational Transformation : Cardboard People, Plasma People

How do you master innovation? Through the powerful story in this video clip, I point out the...

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Daily Inspiraton: “If your reaction to any type of disruptive change ‘We don’t need to do anything right now,’ the future would like to have a word with you!”

"If your reaction to any type of disruptive change is 'We don't need to do anything right now,' the...

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Who Are YOU Hanging Out With? Accelerating Creativity By Changing Your Crowd….

Here's a simple fact: "Many people see a trend and see a threat. Smart people see the same trend...

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Innovating in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: It’s What You Do Right Now That Matters!

Volatility got you down? Are recessionary pressures spooking you? Inflation issuing you...

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Daily Inspiration: “You have three choices. You can panic. You can choose to do nothing. Or you can act, and begin to innovate, change and adapt for the inevitable upturn!”

"You have three choices. You can panic. You can choose to do nothing. Or you can act, and begin...

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Daily Inspiration: “The more they hype the trend the faster you should back away!”

"The more they hype the trend the faster you should back away!" - Futurist Jim Carroll When...

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Daily Inspiration: “Institutional Incompetence: When everyone knows something needs to be done, but no one knows where to start!”

"Institutional Incompetence: When everyone knows something needs to be done, but no one knows where...

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Daily Inspiration: “The future has already arrived! You just might not know what to do with that fact!”

"The future has already arrived! You just might not know what to do with that fact!" - Futurist Jim...

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Daily Inspiration: “Having ideas is easy – turning them into reality is genius!”

"Having ideas is easy - turning them into reality is genius!" - Futurist Jim...

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Keynote: e-Recruitment Congress – The Future of the Workforce, Ostend, Belgium

The disappearance of knowledge and the acceleration of new knowledge. The obsolescence of existing...

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Daily Inspiration: “You are going to need to recruit people for jobs not yet in existence based on skills not yet developed and you need to do this yesterday!”

"You are going to need to recruit people for jobs not yet in existence based on skills not yet...

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Daily Inspiration: “It’s never too late to become the person you’ve always wanted to be!”

"It's never too late to become the person you've always wanted to be!" - Futurist Jim...

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Forward oriented leadership : Avoiding aggressive indecision!

What holds back a lot of innovation in organizations is a culture of "aggressive...

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Post-Covid Leadership : Aligning to the New Era of Volatility

The pandemic has changed every business assumption. Your ability to lead your team through the new...

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Daily Inspiration: “It’s the unacknowledged mistakes of yesterday that become the barriers to moving forward today!”

"It's the unacknowledged mistakes of yesterday that become the barriers to moving forward today!"...

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Daily Inspiration: “The things you complain about too much are probably the very things you need to fix!”

"The things you complain about too much are probably the very things you need to fix!" - Futurist...

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What Do Innovators Do That Other’s Don’t Do?

Many organizations have failure embedded into their DNA. They build up a culture of aggressive...

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Daily Inspiration: “It’s not just the journey. it’s the negativity barriers you’ll break along the way that count!”

"It's not just the journey. it's the negativity barriers you'll break along the way that count!" -...

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Acquiring Knowledge – The Acceleration of Skills

Facebook just reminded me of this little story from 10 years ago. Little did I know that this...

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Stuck in a Rut? Things You Should Do Right Now!

Stuck in a rut? Stop it! Here's a list of things you could and should be doing right...

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Daily Inspiration: “Sudden surprise, stunned shock, bolts from the blue: these are the leading indicators of leadership failure!”

"Sudden surprise, stunned shock, bolts from the blue: these are the leading indicators of...

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Baseball Bats, The Future, and the Next Generation!

Highly intelligent, connected baseball bats are arriving to our future. This tells us something...

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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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