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Daily Inspiration: “If you aren’t worried about your competition, check your assumptions. If you aren’t yet terrified about those that don’t yet exist, check your pulse!”

“If you aren’t worried about your competition, check your assumptions. If you aren’t terrified about those that don’t yet exist, check your pulse!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Check the slide I’m using on stage – this has become the most popular one in my slide deck by far. I can see everyone taking photos, writing […]

Find Your Future – Because It’s All Around You Right Now!

Over the last few months, I’ve spent some time to edit a few highlights of keynotes – from my talk at the World Government Summit in Dubai, the IRU Congress in Muscat, Oman, the Swiss Innovation Forum, and a few others. There’s a lot of clips on disruption, transformation, innovation, the future. I’ve managed to […]

Disruption: Understand What It Means – Understand What It Does!

Here’s a clip from an event where I’m doing a live text message poll with my audience – using PollEverywhere – and talking about the reality of business model disruption. Everyone knows they are faced with massive business model change. They’re not quite sure what to do about it. That’s why you need to read […]

Keynote Clip: On Stage at the World Government Summit In Dubai

It’s the era of acceleration: are you too slow when the world is too fast? It was a thrill to keynote the World Government Summit in Dubai in 2018, with a talk on the challenges and opportunities that exist in our fast future. Previous speakers included @BarackObama @elonmusk @stevewoz & @richardbranson – what fun to […]

Mindset Matters – Aligning to the Era of Acceleration

Actually, it doesn’t. It all depends on how you look at it. Mindset matters! Here’s a clip to get you motivated for the era of disruption with the right mindset.

The Future of Trucking and Transportation: Connectivity is the New Horsepower!

The National Automotive Dealers Association has booked me to join them for their annual conference in Las Vegas next February. Jim Carroll Added as General Session Speaker for ATD Show 2020 My talk will take a look at how the world of trucking and transportation is undergoing a seismic change: here’s the keynote description: Is the […]

What is Innovation? This Is!

Rethink it! It’s about asking yourself three questions – what can I do to run the business better? Grow the business? And most important, transform the business!

Pardon Me While I Interrupt Your Complacency! Companies Die From Organizational Sclerosis: Here’s Why!

Some months back, I was I’m killing some time waiting for ay flight in Paris’s Charles deGaulle airport. With a little bit of jet-lag, needed to keep myself awake – so I wrote a parody of my Web page, Why Book Jim, with one called Why You Should Not Book Jim. It’s a fun read! […]

It’s Not About Disruption – It’s About Massive Industry Transformation

On stage, I will often point out that we are living in a period of time that is seeing massive transformation occurring within every single industry. Entire industries are being turned upside down, the fundamentals are chasing, and in 10 years, they won’t look anything like the do today. Here’s a clip that puts that […]

Reinventing Revenue, The End of Oil, Chemical Science and Massive Business Model Disruption!

Need to understand the Saudi Aramco IPO? Simply put, they know oil is over, that chemical science is the future, and that rapid reinvention is critical. Chemours, a global chemicals company, had me in for a talk at a dinner that featured a variety of awards for customer innovation. My dinner keynote included a look […]

Daily Inspiration: “If everyone around you is busy reinventing their business model and you are not, what does that suggest to you about your priorities?”

“If everyone around you is busy reinventing their business model and you are not, what does that suggest to you about your priorities?”- Futurist Jim Carroll I’ll often speak on stage about some of the big, bold ideas being considered by some of the clients that have invited me in to talk about future trends […]

The Disruptive Velocity of Industry Change: Cars Have Become Computers, and Traditional Auto Companies Can’t Keep Up

Cars have become computers. And the fact is, most car companies can’t keep up as the speed of change shifts to the speed of Moore’s law and Silcon Valley. Here’s a clip from the CUDirect Automotive Lending conference that I keynoted in 2016 in which I explain what is going on! Think about it a […]