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  1. · Consumer & Food · Innovation

    From the Stage: What's Your Tin Can?

    Speaking to Godiva Chocolates and its sister companies about the future of food and retail, I asked the room a simple question: "What is your tin can?" The story behind it is…

  2. · Agriculture & Food

    The Future, Sector by Sector — Agriculture: Yesterday’s Farm Ran on Daylight, Tomorrow’s Runs on Data

    Last stop on this tour — and it's where the whole idea started. Regular readers already know agriculture.jimcarroll.com and its companion PDF, The Future of Agriculture: Faster…

  3. · Mediocrity

    Small Habits. Big Results.

    Same 24 hours. Different choices. A brighter you. It really can be that simple. Two new companion books turn thirty years of insight into what makes innovative teams and leaders…

  4. · 2026 Principles

    The 26 Principles, Revisited — #10: Collaborative Velocity — What I Said, and What’s Actually Happening

    Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine months into the year I predicted. Don't protect your knowledge; connect it. Day 10’s claim: your internal…

  5. · How Innovation Happens · Innovation

    How Innovation Happens — Lesson #3: Never Let a Committee Touch a New Idea

    I've been covering the link between future trends and innovation strategies for 30+ years. I went back through my blog posts, stretching to 2002, to dig out the nuggets of…

  6. · Leadership · Manufacturing & Industrial

    From the Stage: Don't Be Motorola

    At Legrand in 2017, an executive named John asked me the question every audience eventually gets to: what do my people do Monday morning? I didn't have a checklist, but I had a…

  7. · Being Unique

    In an AI World of Sameness, Unique Wins

    AI has made it remarkably easy to sound like everyone else. The only output it cannot generate for you is your own point of view. That's the whole premise of my new book, Being…

  8. · Retail & Consumer

    The Future, Sector by Sector — Retail & Consumer: The Store Became a Showroom

    Tenth stop: retail.jimcarroll.com is live, with a companion PDF — The Future of Retail & Consumer. Here's the shift I put in front of every retail audience: we've moved from…

  9. · Mediocrity

    Comfort Zone vs. Growth Zone

    Mediocrity feels safe. Progress feels uncomfortable. That's not a bug, it's the whole point. Two new companion books, Embracing Mediocrity and Escaping Mediocrity, turn thirty…

  10. · 2026 Principles

    The 26 Principles, Revisited — #9: Aim Higher — What I Said, and What’s Actually Happening

    Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine months into the year I predicted. Know this: if your goals feel 'realistic,' you are thinking too small…

  11. · How Innovation Happens · Innovation

    How Innovation Happens — Lesson #2: Hire a VP of Curiosity, Even If It's Just You

    I've been covering the link between future trends and innovation strategies for 30+ years. I went back through my blog posts, stretching to 2002, to dig out the nuggets of…

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