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JIM’S INSIGHTS

Futurist Jim Carroll has quickly become recognized as your ‘go-to source’ for effective insight on what comes next, the strategies that you consider, and the leadership path you need to follow.

INNOVATION INSIGHTS

If you keeping doing the same old thing, you’ll
end up with the same old thing!

Daily Inspiration: “It’s when you are thinking about your last mistake that you will make your next mistake!”

“It’s when you are thinking about your last mistake that you will make your next mistake!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Success comes from a series of mistakes, frequently repeated. Failure is good for you – fail early, fail fast, fail often! That type of wisdom is true because a great deal of success comes from […]

Disruptive Value Propositions: You Aren’t Selling a Widget Anymore!

From a keynote for Philips Medical Devices – with the basic message that the product they are selling is no longer a single, standalone product. Instead, it’s become a hyper-connected, highly intelligent medical device. It’s not a widget anymore. Over the years, many senior executives have brought me into corporate leadership meetings to help their […]

Accelerate Your Future – Imaginate More! (Video Playlist)

Think big! Most fast! Start now! A selection of clips from the stage!

There Are 3 Types of People When It Comes to the Future. Which Type Are You?

I’ve long observed when challenging my audience to align to the future, that there are 3 types of people in my audience: those who watch the future happen those who make the future happen and those who react, “whoah, how did that happen?” Here’s a clip where I am talking about that issue … and […]

Some people. Innovative people. Spot the difference!

It’s quite true. Some people have a very narrow view of the world and never achieve too much. Innovators have a wide-open mind and change the world in new and continuous ways. Consider the differences. Some people see a trend and see a threat. Innovators see the same trend and see an opportunity. Some people […]

An Eclectic Creativity & Innovation Video Playlist!

Inspire yourself! Think different!

Innovation Isn’t What You Think It Is – Here’s What You Need to Know!

The following article was published in AkzoNoble’s “A” Magazine, featuring some of my thoughts on innovation in organizations. The organization is the largest global paints and coatings company and is a leading producer of specialty chemicals. The article is a good read as to how I think and work. It was distributed in print form […]

Checklist: Many organizations are structured for failure. Are you?

“Failure? It’s an attitude that is often preceded by its actual occurrence” – Futurist Jim Carroll Have you ever noticed that you are surrounded by people who seem determined to set you on a path to failure? Or who somehow seem to find joy in some weird passion to bring you down than to build […]

Keynotes I’ve Delivered: And the 101 Ideas on Disruptive Thinking, Innovation Acceleration and Your Next Future That They Provide

So – someone asked me if I delivered canned insight. LOL. I’ll just give you this playlist to start. And then, let me share what I really do. I decided to start listing a few clients with a short overview of the unique keynote titles or topic spin that formed the basis for my keynote […]

KEYNOTE: Bridging the Acceleration Gap Achieving Growth By Aligning to The Post-Pandemic Future

KEYNOTE: Bridging the Acceleration Gap: Achieving Growth By Aligning to The Post-Pandemic Future The global pandemic has changed the axis of our universe. What was disruptive before is now massively transformative. Do you have a strategy to keep up? Pre-pandemic, CEOs and organizations were dealing with a world of business model disruption, the acceleration of technology, the […]

Staying Complacent? You Know You Are Killing Yourself with Inaction. What Are You Going To Do About It?

You’re stuck. Fading into irrelevancy! Dying from organizational sclerosis every single day. Killing yourself with inaction. You know it’s true, don’t you! Because you keep on making the same old excuses, each and every day, that validate your belief that you don’t need to change. As that famous philosopher once said: LOL. The joke will be […]

“Ask a Futurist” – What Trends Are you Watching?

What trends are worth watching as we start to enter an eventual weird, post-Covid economy? How do you distinguish real trends from fads? What really matters? I took these questions on in my “Ask a Futurist” video today. I covered a lot of stuff – fad trends like NFT (nonfungible tokens), Clubhouse and meme-investing which […]