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What World Class Leadership Looked Like in 2019: A Focus on Big Ideas, Transformation, Disruption, Velocity and Risk!
This year marks 25 years that I've appeared on stage speaking about the future, trends, disruption, transformation, innovation. And what a year it was! I always emphasize to my…
Retail Transformation: A Massive Number of Disruptive Trends In Such a Short Time Span!
I spoke at the annual conference for key customers of Revionics, a company involved in the retail pricing strategy industry. During the intro, I spent a few moments to put into…
Were You Watching How Fast 2019 Happened? So What's Your Plan for 2020?
It's the 'era of acceleration' and a race to the future. Were you even at the starting gate? Based on my '19 Trends for 2019', I put out this 15 minute video at the start of the…
The Collapse of Attention Spans, and the Future of Packaging
Last week, I was the closing keynote speaker for an event for a group of companies that supply packaging materials and solutions to McDonald's in North America. I'll have a…
WTF! Most Sales Conferences and Dealer Meetings Today are a Failure: Here's Why!
"Do what you've always done, and you'll get what you've always got." So goes the phrase. Which increasingly, in a world in which the era of acceleration is changing what you sell…
Video: Rapid Reinvention and Chameleon Revenue
Your legacy is your death. Watch this clip - CEO's are talking about the need to provide for revenue streams where revenue didn't exist before, from products not previously in…
Analysis: Why Is Your Brand Suddenly from the 'Olden Days?'
"A brand today can go from hero to zero in a matter of months...." 10 years ago, I was on stage for global organizations advising them that the next decade would see them face…
Video : Is Your Brand From the Olden Days?
Is your brand from the olden days? Probably. I nailed this as a trend years ago. With that, here's a video from the vaults - March 2009, Las Vegas. I'm the opening keynote speaker…
Daily Inspiration: “Is your brand suddenly something from the ‘olden days?’”
“Is your brand suddenly something from the ‘olden days?’” - Futurist Jim Carroll Here’s an interesting reality: your brand is no longer what you say it is - it’s what ‘they’ say…
Keynote: International Finance Corporation - A Member of the World Bank Group, Marrakesh, Morocco
Jim was the opening keynote speaker at the 2nd Global Manufacturing Conference for the International Finance Corporation, a part of of the World Bank Group, held in Marrakesh…
Your Future: Is it Logic or Emotion Driven? (The Idiocy of the NAFTA 'Replacement' Story)
Guess what! Facts matter! (Oh, and science is real too, but that's another story). With that in mind, consider this: a year ago, NAFTA was very much in the news. People thought it…
19 Trends for 2019: #16 Innovating In the Face of Relentless Volatility
A futurist must always be a relentless optimist, particularly on stage. We've been engaged to provide a tour of the future that provides our audience a sense of hope and…
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