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Disruption & Acceleration · 2019
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Video: The Future is WAY Bigger Than You Think! Here's Why!
The volume of knowledge is doubling every eight years. Batteries will dominate the world of transportation going forward. 24 hour solar power plants are the future. Drones define…
Seriously, You're Doomed! You're About to Have an Organizational Coronary!
Why? Because, you are dysfunctional. How do you know? Read my list: Want to debate it? Ok, take the test: ' Need to fix it? Read the full "Innovation Killers" page here. You're…
What's Driving Disruption? Multiple Trends, All at Once!
We've never lived in a time that has involved so much opportunity. Consider what is happening as multiple trends appear, combine, and provide pathways for imagination. Learn more…
Video: Speed Things Up - You Need to Reinvent Your Products, Continuously!
Product lifecycles as a concept are dead. Nothing lasts forever. What you sell today will be obolete tomorrow, if it isn't already from the olden days today. Organizations need to…
#MOTOFAIL: Why Do Smart Companies Do Really Stupid Things?
Here's a clip for you to watch; it's from an event I spoke at a few weeks ago in San Diego. It speaks for itself. Often, when I am speaking about innovation, I will bring up this…
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…
Video: Are You Thinking too Small When the Scope of the Future is WAY Bigger Than You Think? Probably!
A video clip from my keynote yesterday for several hundred educators and executives for the Career Education College Education conference in New Orleans. One day, we'll look back…
"We Used To ...." - A Look Back at How Primitive Our World Was in 2019
Part of the art of figuring out the future comes not from looking forward, but by looking back. What that idea in mind, here's a list of things we used to do back in 2019 that we…
THE WHO had it right: Your business model will probably die before you get old!
Will you survive? People don't have a lot of confidence that their business model is going to stay the same. Watch this clip where I'm polling a retail audience on that very…
Daily Inspiration: "Truth, or dare?"
“When it comes to your business model: truth, or dare?” -#Futurist Jim Carroll Admit it: you probably played the game as a kid! Everyone did! It was, perhaps, a method…
Daily Inspiration: "Arrogance Kills"
“Arrogance kills!” - #Futurist Jim Carroll One of the sins that will guarantee your failure is complacency: a belief that your world won’t change. At the other extreme, arrogance…
Daily Inspiration: "Hyper-connectivity now defines the future of just about everything
“Hyper-connectivity now defines the future of just about everything!” In the photo, I’m on stage in Muscat, Oman, opening the #iruworldcongress , a global event focused on the…
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