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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!

Hire People You Don’t Like. Stop Seeking Common Ground. Kill the Committee. & More Ideas to Accelerate Your Reality

Those who succeed possess a daring need for speed. That’s your reality. If you think your world, industry, company, business model, platform, technology or anything else will look the same a year from now — you’re wrong. What are you going to do about it? Change things. Change things big. Don’t think small – be […]

People Will Always Laugh At Your Crazy Ideas: They Are Usually Wrong!

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, they dismiss it. Case in point – back in 2006, I was the opening keynote speaker for a conference of telecom and […]

The Story Behind the Picture: “Be Routinely Spontaneous!”

The photo is from an event I did for an insurance company — an industry that is set to be disrupted in a significant way as direct-relationship business models increasingly take hold. I’ve written and spoken about this extensively, such as in my post, Insurance & Innovation – The Challenge of Change. People are locked into […]

The Story Behind the Picture: “Innovation is Like a Tee Shot”

So I golf. Not well, but I have goals. Which makes the fact that the PGA of America has invited me in to keynote their organization twice all the much more remarkable. This shot is from my keynote for the PGA Merchandise Show — I was invited in for a keynote on how technology could […]

It’s a Race to the Future. Some People Don’t Bother Showing Up

Each morning since August, I’ve enjoyed my morning coffee while putting together a little future/motivational quote from some of my stage pictures. You can track this over on Instagram; I also tweet them. I’m hoping to put up a few slide shows on my blog as well in the future; some folks find them inspiring and […]

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. Enron. E.F. Hutton.RCA. Tower Records. Polaroid. Woolworths. Compaq. Arthur Anderson. The list could go on…. companies that were leaders in their time, and then failed, due to a lack of […]

Innovation challenge: “We need customers to like to do business with us”

At this point in my career, 70% of my keynotes are for leadership meetings, many involving Fortune 1000 organizations. I’m often brought in my a CEO or other senior executive to inspire top leadership to think about the trends that will impact them, and that will provide both opportunity and challenge going forward. In these […]

What Will You Do Today to Encourage Failure? It’s a Great Question!

Are you doing enough in your organization to encourage a culture of failure? It not, why not? Failure is often a prerequisite for success. In other words, many times, you can’t there from here, unless you take a diversion to there….. That’s an important lesson when it comes to innovation, and it’s always good to keep […]

2016: My Favourite Quote of the Year!

Here’s my favourite quote from 2016. It comes from Tesla Motors, and hence, Elon Musk, in a SEC filing on August 5th, having to do with the Tesla Model 3. A car that does not yet exist, but which 400, 000 people bought into the idea of (I was one of them!) “We have no […]

Accelerating Leadership: Here’s a CEO/Board Strategy Session with Futurist Jim Carroll!

While I find myself doing keynotes in Las Vegas, Orlando and Phoenix for audiences of up to 7,000, I also regularly do a whole series of small, CEO or Board meetings that are focused on future trends, strategies and opportunities. I’m thouroughly enjoying myself while preparing for an upcoming 2017 event in this space; I’ve […]

Golf balls with webcams, golf carts, and the future!

For as long as there has been the future, there have been people who don’t like it. Ogden Nash captured that reality perfect, when he observed that “for some people, progress is great, but its’ gone on way too long.” With that in mind, here’s a clip from my keynote for the PGA of America […]

What Every Business Needs: A Senior VP of Curiosity!

I’ve always liked the children’s book series which involved Curious George and the Man in the Yellow Hat. It was fabulous to read to my kids, as it featured this adorable little monkey who was always thinking about things, and always ended up getting into trouble as a result. It made me think about the […]