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.
If you keeping doing the same old thing, you’ll
end up with the same old thing!
How do you inspire 500 dentists from throughout the United Kingdom to adapt to the future, align with the future, and accelerate into what’s next? Through 10 Great Words – here are the closing moments from my keynote for Invisalign.
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“If we’ve learned anything (when it comes to encouraging creativity) it’s that we rarely do!” Every once in a while, for some reason or other, a page on my Web site takes off and gets shared around a lot. Sometimes, a BIG lot! At the end of last year, my list of ‘10 Great Words […]
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“A Futurist’s Framework: Follow your failures. Find your flaws. Fix your future!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Find the things that are wrong in order to make things right! Huh? Let’s say that “innovation” has become a keyword for your organization and your team. If that’s the case, where do you start? Maybe it isn’t with chasing […]
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Here’s a clip from a keynote in which I talk to the reality of the change that every organization faces today: It’s all right there in the video clip – directly from my keynote: The impact of disruption is that everything you do forever changes – the products you develop, the services you deliver, the […]
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“Denial of your reality is not going to lead you to a better outcome!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Read this: “RIM continues to have strong technology, unique service capabilities and a large installed base of customers, and we are more determined than ever to capitalize on our strengths to overcome the recent execution challenges surrounding […]
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“If only the paranoid survive, it’s also true that it’s the chameleons who will thrive!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Here’s a story about innovation and adaptability. To be a chameleon – to change with the circumstances, adapt, evolve, and reinvent. Back in 2008, Toshiba Australia invited me to open their annual technology conference in Sydney […]
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They’re everywhere! Little robots scurrying about, doing the jobs that humans don’t want to do! Despite the widespread techno-skepticism which I identified in Trend #1 – Technoskpeticism and Retiming the Future, it’s pretty clear that many technologies are having their moment. Robotics is clearly one of the most relevant, which is why it’s trend #20 of my […]
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Globalization as we know it is over -and with that, one of the most basic assumptions which have driven the post-World War 2 economy has come to an end. That’s why trend #16 of my “23 Trends for 2023” is The Great Decoupling – what happens as the assumptions behind the success of globalization are […]
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Folks don’t want to talk about the pandemic anymore, but we should, for despite all the awful things that happened, and the massive divisions it has caused in society, one thing is clear: the way that organizations organize, learners learn, science sciences, and experts’ expertise, has forever changed. We learned a tremendous number of lessons […]
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We need to plan faster with bigger goals in mind – but we’ve been distracted. After all, we’ve been in triage mode with our organization in dealing with the pandemic, supply chain challenges, a volatile economy, and workforce issues. That’s why trend #10 of my “23 Trends for 2023” has to do with the idea of […]
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There might be a recession in 2023. Or, maybe not! But whatever happens, it’s pretty certain that an increasing number of CEOs are deciding that they choose not to take part. They’ll opt out. That’s trend #6 of my ‘23 Trends for 2023′ series. To opt-out is to choose not to participate in something. Right now, […]
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Companies and people fight the future. Inevitability, they come to accept the inevitability of it all! And in 2023, they are going to do more of that! That’s Trend #3 of my ‘23 Trends for 2023!’ The Backstory We live in disruptive times. The Internet, technology, and digitization of industries have led to massive change. […]
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“Disruptive trends never wait for those who are structured for slow in a world of fast!” – Futurist Jim Carroll (Re the photo – you NEVER check your watch when you are up on stage, but I was making a point to the audience that things are moving fast, and you need to move fast!) […]
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“If success depends on the company you keep, choose a few oddballs, rebels, failures and freaks! (Because conformity kills all creativity!)” – Futurist Jim Carroll Let me introduce you to Misfits Market. As with many retailers, the company, based in New Jersey, saw massive success during Covid: An online grocery subscription service has experienced 400% […]
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It’s 2011. Futurist Jim Carroll has 2,000 clients of @TRowePrice in a room, and he’s talking about economic downturns & mindset – and doing a live text message poll to assess their thinking. This was shortly after the economic downturn of 2008-2009. Watch it unfold! 2/3 of the people in the room thought a recovery […]
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In 1993, Digital Equipment – then one of the most significant high-tech companies in the world – held a road show to highlight the growing importance of the Internet and the emerging digital economy. They invited senior executives of key clients – the CEOs, CFO, and CIOs of major corporations and government agencies – to […]
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The future is all about the acceleration of new skills, knowledge, and careers – and you’d better be ready for what it represents! And yet, while providing massive opportunities to organizations that align with the trend – the future is also perceived by many in the ‘old guard’ as a threat. I described this in […]
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Most effective Web sites feature a ‘hero image’ which is designed to grab your attention AND get across in one simple sentence what it is you provide. Mine changed – specifically with the ‘hero text’ which ran ever since the newest version of my Web site launched in 2019. That section went from this: To […]
Read MoreDisruption is real, it’s big, and it’s happening faster than you think. Do you think your business model, your products, your organization, your culture, your legacy … will survive tomorrow? It won’t, unless you challenge yourself to change!
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“When everyone else is doing something, do a different thing!” – Futurist Jim Carroll It started out like this, but then it went differently as I worked things through…. Here’s the thing – Oblio never had a point. Huh” What? Years ago when I abandoned the traditional publishing world and went the self-publishing path, I […]
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“When it comes to the future, it’s the structure, not just the strategy, that matters!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Or it can be put this way: “Those who structure for tomorrow will lead the opportunities of tomorrow!” Observations from another senior leadership meeting for a global powerhouse …. in this case, from a dinner talk held for his team […]
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Futurist Jim Carroll on stage at an energy conference, outlining the realities of change, the disruptive realities changing our future, and the attitudes and actions that organizations follow to achieve breakthrough innovation performance.
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“Don’t stress about the things you did wrong. Refocus and learn from the things you did right!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Mistakes are good for you! Even though it usually doesn’t seem like it at the time – all of us are usually faced with moments of dread when things go wrong. But what is […]
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