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Timing is Everything: Jim Carroll's 5 Rules on Aligning to the Future!
Here's a big issue to wrap your head around - increasingly, your opportunity for future success will come from your ability to get the timing right! That issue has been the focus…
Innovation and Creativity? The Inspiration is In Your Ketchup Bottle (From the Vaults!)
In 2003, SAP had me in for a keynote on innovation; I was transitioning from being a technology-oriented speaker to my role as a futurist, innovation, and creativity expert. It…
Laugher? It's the Worst Medicine - And Indicates A Culture of Failure!
Many people have a belief system that has them convinced that the world of tomorrow will look much like it does today, with the result that when they are confronted by the future…
Practicing What I Preach - With a Massive New Format Change to My Daily Inspiration (Continuous since August 2016!)
Since August 2016, due to a variety of complex personal situations, I began blogging my "Daily Inspiration" posts. First thing, every morning, before I start anything else during…
Video: Achieving Optimism - Learning from the Two Different Types of Farmers!
One of my favorite bits of insight I like to share from the stage concerns the story of the 'two types of farmers.' Which one are you? Check the list below. Watch this short clip…
10 Things That Are True About the Future (It's fast, it's everywhere, and you are likely already out of date!)
Clearly the rate of change – whether with business models, product life-cycles, skills and knowledge – is speeding up. With such change, there’s a lot of uncertainty within many…
Daily Inspiration: "It is what it is - until you make it into what it is isn’t!"
"It is what it is - until you make it into what it isn’t!" - Futurist Jim Carroll "It is what it is." This seems to be one of the phrases we have adopted in the pandemic, the…
Daily Inspiration: "How did you come to think you could achieve your big ideas when you have assembled a team of small minds?"
"How did you come to think you could achieve your big ideas when you have assembled a team of small minds?" - Futurist Jim Carroll Nothing great was ever really achieved by…
Daily Inspiration: "Many companies fail at the future because they haven't been listening to what the future has been telling them."
"Many companies fail at the future because they haven't been listening to what the future has been telling them." - Futurist Jim Carroll In many industries, we know exactly how…
'101 Things We Know About Our Future' - An Esoteric List of Things That are Happening Now and Next!
My mind all too often races with ideas; I think too much. The busy activities in my head lead me to regularly scribble down lots of thoughts about the world around me. Overall, as…
Innovate and Adapt - or Die: The Sobering Reality of Disruption
It's that simple. Here's a simple list of companies that were once great successes. Then they weren't: Blockbuster. Borders. Lehman Bros. Kodak. Circuit City. RadioShack. Pan-Am…
Daily Inspiration: “It’s the small ideas that become the big opportunities!”
“It’s the small ideas that become the big opportunities!” - Futurist Jim Carroll My new virtual studio is rocking. Uncertainty rocks our world too, and so the meeting industry…
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