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.
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You!
Over the last 28 years, I’ve appeared on stage worldwide at well over 2,000 events, in front of upwards of 2 million people. There have been small events of a few dozen, and many large-scale Las Vegas and other conference center events with 5,000 or 7,500 people. That’s a lot of insight shared! A guy […]
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From the vaults. Don’t be Motorola.
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Here’s a clip to get you thinking. This is from a custom virtual keynote production I prepared for a global insurance conference on behalf of my client, Salesforce. COVID-19 is not a disruption. It’s an accelerant. It has magnified and accelerated everything that is good and everything that is bad. If you have not realigned […]
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Geography is collapsing, how people search for financial services is changing, loyalty is declining, competition is increasing, relationship building is not always done in person, attention spans are collapsing, and with that, the foundation of interaction is changing. And the future is accelerating. This is the future of financial services. Are you really prepared for what comes next? Learn […]
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I’ve long been meaning to interview one of the smartest guys I know in the world of energy and utilities, and last week found the perfect opportunity to finally do it – an announcement by Mercedes that they will commit to having an all electric fleet by 2030 – and an electric alternative forever car […]
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How well prepared are you for your post-Covid future? Do you understand the new trends? Have you formulated a strategy? Have you developed an action plan? I’m in my spaceship, talking you through the issues!
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The folks at Applied Software, a leading purveyor of manufacturing software, invited me in to be the launch person for their new Forging Manufacturing podcast. We had so much to talk about that they turned it into two episodes! You can access it here. I spend a lot of time providing trends oriented keynotes in […]
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Back in 2017, I wrote what turned out to be quite the prescient blog post: Trend: The Emerging Healthcare Reality Crisis. Here’s what I wrote: Clearly there are vast sections of the population today who do not believe in science. They don’t believe in facts. They don’t believe in much other than what they want […]
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Here’s a look back at a great keynote four years ago this month. This talk was for Legrand’s North American leadership meeting, where the CEO and his team were fine-tuning strategies and plans for the coming year. They’re big in the global tech industry, manufacturing a wide variety of component parts and cabling. My talk […]
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Some will win Some will lose — Journey A clip from a recent podcast on the future of manufacturing, in which I talk about the real economic implications for regions with low vaccine uptake. Watch this trend!
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As part of my ‘acceleration gap‘ theme, I hit the virtual broadcast studio and filmed a concise piece on what world-class innovators learned throughout the pandemic – and what you are up against if you don’t change!
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Here’s a clip to get you thinking! It’s from a talk I gave for a global Siemens energy summit. I’m telling the story about how the fact that we have ‘fitbits for cows’ is one of the trends that is leading to the acceleration of battery technology via drones – which impacts automotive, energy, and […]
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One of the challenges with the global pandemic is that so many companies were essentially involved in triage – fighting tooth and nail every day to align to sudden new business realities – that many forgot about the vast, disruptive change sweeping their industry. Two years ago to the day today, I was on stage […]
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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 […]
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Individually, any trend is disruptive. Combine them together, and it’s transformative. When everything connects, power disperses. Legacy is death: agility and speed are the new metrics for success. These are some of the mantras that should define your future. Disruption is real, it’s big, and it’s happening faster than you think. The trends that define […]
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As we start to enter the next, new phase of our post-pandemic world, what happens when people don’t want to back to the office? What happens with those who like their new space? Expect this question to dominate the world of HR, future trends, leadership, and all kinds of other topic areas in the months and […]
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I bill myself as an “Optimistic Futurist.” My running joke when walking out on stage was – and is – “I can’t tell you that your future sucks, because then I wouldn’t get many repeat bookings.” But all kidding aside, I try to force myself each and every day into a positive frame of mind […]
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Are you structured for slow in a fast world? 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? Are you dealing with the reality of the acceleration gap? I hit the virtual studio to explain your challenge. History […]
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Here’s a clip where I’m on stage a few years back, at an event where the CEO and his team are fine-tuning strategies and plans for the coming year. I’m there to set the context for the next several days with a talk about the future. They’re big in the global tech industry, manufacturing a wide […]
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On this day, in 2018. And if you think about it, the future was pretty slow back then. In the olden days, pre-Covid, before the world accelerated, and the Acceleration Gap became your biggest challenge going forward!
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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 […]
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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 […]
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