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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: “Right now, your speed matters more than your plan. Think fast. Move faster!”

“Right now, your speed matters more than your plan. Think fast. Move faster!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Here’s some facts to ponder: you won’t be going to a conference, event, or corporate off-site for a long, long time even so, you don’t like the virtual events you’ve been to so far – they’re pretty bad, […]

When Not to Launch A New Book -> Just Before a Global Pandemic!

A wonderful little book review of the book I released in January this year to …. stunning silence! It’s not a great time to release a book at the start of a pandemic! It comes from CPA Canada, a print and online publication that has covered much of my insight before, which ranks it as […]

Revisiting the Innovation Killers in the Era of Covid-19 : A Reality Check For Your New Future

Over 20 years ago, when I began an intense focus on researching what defined “innovation success,” I came up with my list of the ‘innovation killers’ – the excuses that people and organizations make on their way to the future. Hence, failing at innovation. It’s a pretty comprehensive list, and became a key focus in many […]

Aggressive Indecision 2020: How Organizations Are Failing By Freezing FAST! (Hint: Accept Your New Covid-19 Reality)

It seems there are a lot of people reading my new book, “Think Small, Delay Now, Scale Slow!” They so busy thinking that Covid-19 will ‘soon be over’ that they aren’t reinventing themselves for our new future. The result? They’re going to be left far, far behind. I’m watching people, organizations, associations and how they […]

Video: My New Book and Other Titles: “The Future Belongs to Those Who Are Slow!”

If you aren’t adapting, you aren’t surviving! Watch this clip where I talk about an alternate universe of alternate titles for my last 4 books. Then, think about what you are not doing well.

Daily Inspiration: ““Every great recession has its moment of opportunity! It’s what you do in that moment that matters!”

“Every great recession has its moment of opportunity! It’s what you do in that moment that matters!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Yes, flip-flops! Because apparently you can have the skill of building a state of the art broadcast studio in your basement, but miss the small details of what you happen to have on your […]

Daily Inspiration: “Successful people never start their day with a goal in mind of being ‘less than epic!’”

“Successful people never start their day with a goal in mind of being ‘less than epic!’” – Futurist Jim Carroll The name of my latest book, of course, is “Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast!‘” Who would buy a book with the title “Think Small, Delay Now, Move Slow?” Who would start their day with the smallest […]

Interactive Leadership Topics for Your Post-Pandemic World: Battle Tested Strategies Delivered from a World Class Studio!

Right now, you need insight on your world redefined for the next 10 years; leadership strategies to deal with your new ambiguity, volatility, complexity and uncertainty; and battle tested strategies and action plans to get you there. This video outlines the 3 interactive virtual talks I will be delivering to global organizations eager to move […]

Daily Inspiration #1000! – “Oddly enough, you might one day discover that your very own personal reinvention was actually to be found in your efforts to help reinvent those around you!”

“Oddly enough, you might one day discover that your very own personal reinvention was actually to be found in your efforts to help reinvent those around you!” – Futurist Jim Carroll A milestone, of sorts. This is post #1,000 of what has become my “Daily Inspiration”. You can find them all right here: https://jimcarroll.com/category/daily-inspiration/ and […]

Virtual Keynote Topic: “Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity: Leadership Strategies and Insight for the Post Pandemic World”

History has taught us that only 10% of organizations become breakthrough performers during a period of economic challenge. Through several economic downturns, I’ve carefully studied the strategies they pursue, the concepts that drive them, and the actions they take to become a success in this complex new world. I summarized this insight in a clip […]

Daily Inspiration: “The global pandemic has created a war between fast moving events and previously slow-moving organizations!”

“The global pandemic has created a war between fast moving events and previously slow-moving organizations!”– Futurist Jim Carroll There’s a lot to unpack in this picture. As my mom would have said when I came down in the morning as an 8 year old with plaid pants, a checked shirt and striped socks, “It’s busy […]

Video Series: Rethinking Leadership : Insight for Our Eventual Post Pandemic World – #4 Partner Up!

I’m replaying clips from my January series, “Insight 2020: Leadership Strategies for the Era of Acceleration – and re-examining them in the context of our pandemic-impacted world. Here’s #4 – Partner Up! As I wrote back in January: “If you could do it alone, you would have already achieved what you needed to achieve! But […]

Daily Inspiration: “The gaming generatIon has suddenly met with an ongoing need for distance education……”

“The gaming generatIon has suddenly met with an ongoing need for distance education. Wouldn’t it make sense to add some gamification to make it a little bit more interesting for them?” – Futurist Jim Carroll I will be spending the day today filming a trends piece that takes a look at how Covid-19 has provided interesting […]

Failing at the future: 10 reasons why some companies will miss out on the economic upturn!

Just over 3 months ago, the global economy changed. What has it changed to? After the the ’08 downturn, I keynoted the Missouri Governor Economic Development conference in St. Louis, and offered this quote from the American Chamber of Commerce: “It’s going to be this move from a bad economy, to the next economy.” What […]

Post Basement Online Keynote Gig Report: I’m Pumped! Leadership Insight for the New Era of Volatility, Ambiguity and Uncertainty!

So, I went on stage today. My first real client event since this ‘thing’ started unfolding. And I gotta tell you, waiting to go live from my home broadcast studio was just almost as exciting as walking out in front of 5,000 in Las Vegas. Maybe even more so, because in addition to being the […]

Daily Inspiration: “You won’t get ahead by being small and timid when the biggest, boldest challenges of your lifetime are occurring all around you!”

“You won’t get ahead by being small and timid when the biggest, boldest challenges of your lifetime are occurring all around you!” – Futurist Jim Carroll This is no time for thinking small. This is a time to think big and give it all you’ve got. The global economy is in the midst of its most […]

Daily Inspiration: “Work hard enough, and eventually you’ll find your canvas of creativity!”

“Work hard enough, and eventually you’ll find your canvas of creativity!” – Futurist Jim Carroll You’ll know that you clearly have turned the corner on how you are dealing this ‘this thing’ when you are at the point that you wake up in the morning, eager to get your to your work, full of ideas […]

Old World “Not Hot”: Phoning it In. New World “Hot”: Not Zooming It In!

Through my 25 year speaking career, I have had the opportunity to form close relationships with many of the top speakers bureaus in the world. They are important and invaluable partners. And with that, I always have my pinch me moments when I find myself talking with the same agents who are booking Barack and […]

Daily Inspiration: “The world is changing fast. But you can be faster!”

“The world is changing fast. But you can be faster!” – Futurist Jim Carroll My tag line in my old stage life used to be “the future belongs to those who are fast!” and that we need to “think big, start small, scale fast!” While those are a key part of my message today, I also […]

Daily Inspiration: “Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity. This is your reality. Deal with it. Keep innovating!”

“Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity. This is your reality. Deal with it. Keep innovating!” – Futurist Jim Carroll A clip from my ‘show’ yesterday and my online ‘broadcast’ with Australia the other night. The picture is fuzzy – my original camera was not up to snuff, but I received a new device post-broadcast which lets me upgrade that […]

Show #4 : Disrupting the Big Disruption – Failure is Good for You, and I Get My Stage Groove Back On (in my Basement)

Here it is, raw and uncut. Too many speakers are doing too many boring Zooms with boring Powerpoints – or they’re just a talking head in front of a bookshelf with dead content. People tune out in 2 minutes. But it is totally possible to be with a Zoom audience for 60 minutes, with a […]

Daily Inspiration: “Failure is your secret weapon! Don’t be scared of making a mistake – be terrified of not making enough of them!”

“Failure is your secret weapon! Don’t be scared of making a mistake – be terrified of not making enough of them!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I will be going live, online, tomorrow night at 8pm EST, for an early morning event based out of Adelaide, Australia – and will spend a part of my day […]

You Can Fail and Win – Or You Can Fail to Win! 10 Things I’ve Learned in 2 Months of Moving FAST!

Alternative Title: Join Us in the 10%! Get Moving! Avoid Perfection! Work the Criticism. Use the Hive-mind! Keep the Faith! Just Go! It’s been a rocket ride the last few months, and I worked hard to quickly go from the ‘anger’ and ‘denial’ phase of the Seven Stages of Economic Grief to ‘acceptance’ and ‘hope.’ […]

National TV Interview : Reinvent. Relentlessly. Repeat. Regularly!

Well, that was a fair bit of fun and made for a delightful weekend! Last Thursday, I was busy in the home office, wrapping up my weekly broadcast. At that moment, I was contacted by a reporter for Global National – that’s one of the national news programs in my home country of Canada. He […]