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#leadership · 2010
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How to battle organizational sclerosis!
A few years ago, when I was the closing speaker for the Swiss Innovation Forum in Zurich, I made the observation that many "organizations fail because they have failure ingrained…
Zorbing and the big global idea machine!
I've got a new Web traffic monitoring tool - Re-Energize -- which is quite wonderful! And every day, when I look at how people are finding my site, it's become quite obvious that…
Graduation time!
This weekend marks an interesting chapter -- I'll be graduating on Sunday! It's been quite a long time since my last official graduation ceremony -- some 30+ years ago. When I…
Healthcare 2020: The Transformative Trends That Will REALLY Define Our Future
A new keynote topic was put to my many speakers bureaus partners today, based on some of the recent work that I've been doing. Grab the PDF by clicking on the image on the right!…
Video : What do innovative organizations do?
What do innovative organizations do? They re-orient themselves for an economy in which their ability to react to fast paced change will increasingly define their success. In this…
Innovation: "We need to suck less!"
I'll often be lined up for a conversation with the CEO of a client organization when I'm preparing for a private client CEO leadership/innovation keynote. It's part of a careful…
Trend: Short, sharp shocks of strategic insight
I was in Baltimore last week, where I was the opening keynote speaker for the 2010 Passkey Corporate Housing Forum. Passkey is a company that provides software for the corporate…
Article: "Re-energize your association!"
by Jim Carroll From: The Boardroom, a publication for Association Executives Every association executive is regularly inundated with information on the leadership skills they must…
The return of growth
My mantra about innovation is that it is always about three questions: how do you run the business better, grow the business, and transform the business. Address those three…
The Innovation Killers
A great little video clip from a recent keynote that outlines the challenges you face if you try and be an innovator! You can find some useful information on dealing with…
Video: Innovators thrive on fast paced ideas
Jim challenges an audience to think about collaboration in the era of the 'global idea machine'. In this case, Jim was the opening keynote speaker for the 2010 US Navy/Marine/Air…
Toyota, quality, and what we knew in 2007 ......
Back in May 2007, I was invited to be the keynote speaker at the 4th World Conference on Quality and Improvement on behalf of the American Society for Quality; I spoke to an…
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