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Moving beyond the meltdown – linking opportunity to innovation

Here's a brief clip from a recent event in New York City; I focused on the need to have a...

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100 Days of Innovation – #3 : Check your speed

One of the key issues I point out when speaking about innovation strategies, is that...

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Moving Beyond the Meltdown: Aligning Yourself for Growth Through Innovation

If you study the screen carefully to the right, you'll note that the current slide from my deck...

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What the CEO’s are saying: “Six things we need to do”

If you want to understand what you should be doing right now, you keep your ears close to the...

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The economy — what I’m seeing happen RIGHT NOW

This is quite unreal.A month ago, I faced a very busy September and early October, and was...

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The seven stages of economic grief – when do you innovate?

I was speaking with a client yesterday about an upcoming event in Palo Alto, California. We...

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It’s back! Aggressive indecision! Here’s how to kick it out!

It's back!Aggressive indecision! With all the economic turmoil, leaders, executives and...

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How do you innovate in a volatile economy?

When the Readers Digest Food & Entertainment Division, based in New York, went looking for...

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Do you really need an innovation spark? How about a custom edition of Ready, Set, Done?

Since Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast was published a year ago...

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Video clip — where’s the opportunity? Where’s the growth?

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100 Days of Innovation – #2 – Go Upside Down

When thinking about new product or service development, don't do it in isolation. Seek advice...

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Innovation – act fast – empower people!

Empowering staff and partners to make quick decisions is an essential component of innovating...

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100 Days of Innovation – Get Out in Front

The last few weeks have seen a variety of keynotes for leadership meetings -- for a telecom...

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Thinking innovation: The Challenge for Education in the High Velocity World

I'm thrilled to learn that I've been selected as the opening day speaker for the College Board...

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Freeze, innovate or panic? Innovation strategies for RIGHT NOW

Given the rapid pace of global economic developments, organizations are faced with a pretty...

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Being an optimist: a keynote on economic development

So I'm in an airport, on my way to keynote a conference on economic development. And of...

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High velocity change in the food/consumer products sector

I'm in Manhattan tomorrow, speaking at an event for food, advertising and packaging companies...

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Interview – “Is it time to panic?”

The CBC contacted me for my thoughts on the events this week, and in particular, the impact...

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Financial meltdown? Or environmentally responsible reporting?

I don't want to distract from the seriousness of the events unfolding on Wall Street, but...

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Change! What happens when change happens?

Well, it seems that EVERYBODY is now talking about change. Given that, it's time to resurrect my...

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7 Things to Do Right Now As the Upturn Begins!

I'm often providing detailed strategic guidance to senior executives and leaders on trends and the...

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Reaching the new travel consumer

I'm off to keynote Tourism Alberta -- and will speak to some 200+ tourism marketing...

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Setting the table: rapid consumer trends in the food industry

We're witnessing hyper-innovation with packaging, design, in-store promotion, new product...

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Keynote: Financial management and high velocity healthcare

I provided the opening keynote yesterday for over 275 CFO's of the Ontario Hospital...

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A truly staggering, transformative trend yet to unfold

It's been announced that I will be a keynote speaker at the World HealthCare Innovation &...

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High velocity globalization – massive markets, major trends

I'm hitting the ground running this week, with an opening keynote presentation for a global...

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Is there a future for associations?

Association Magazine has published my article, Metamorphosis: A Defining Success Factor for...

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Innovation — in the most wonderful places

Well, I'm back from summer holidays, and the keynote in Australia was a particular bit of fun....

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National Australia Bank, Sydney, Australia: Innovation Strategies for Financial Advisors & Financial Organizations

A keynote that looked at the key trends and opportunities in the areas of personal financial...

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Toshiba, Sydney Australia: Mobile Technology and Business Disruption

This keynote for 500+ senior executives in Sydney, Australia, looked at innovation trends in...

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Why innovation thrives in the building of sandcastles

I'm off to keynote an event in Sydney, Australia; and after that, two weeks of family time in...

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Faster is the new fast — also in auto

One of the key tenets of my book, Ready, Set, Done -- How to Innovate When Faster is the New...

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Soccer moms, text messaging, and the inevitability of virtuality

A few weeks ago, I arrived in my hotel room, and connected back to my home office via Skype. I...

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Starbuck’s Icarus moment …..

I'm quoted in a Reuters article that has run in the Washington Post, Globe and Mail, and the...

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Get Fest-ed! Adding some life to your annual conference or event….

I've had a new article published for Association Executives for the CSAE, about how you can...

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Pearson PLC: The Future of Media

This keynote for the leadership meeting for the world’s largest publisher in New York,...

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Extreme skills: what happens when knowledge runs out?

I'm in Vancouver, about to deliver a keynote to a global professional services firm, with the...

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Is there hope for manufacturing? You bet!

I'm in Milwaukee today, speaking at a private group of manufacturers from across the country,...

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Computational analytics is another new plastic!

At my keynote to the US Association of Actuaries this week, and for a keynote to LOMA last week (an...

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Transitioning the global economy

There are a zillion fast, zippy cool trends out there. And then, there are the big, sweeping,...

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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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