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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!

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 […]

Highlight Clip – Week 3 – “Disrupting the Big Disruption: Jim Carroll’s Weekly Review of Leadership and the Big Realignment!”

Speakers and topic experts should not be boring in this new online world. I’m working hard not to be in my home broadcast studio! With that in mind, here’s the raw and uncut feed from my weekly ‘show’ this morning. I think I’m getting the hang of delivering the content while managing staging, production, sound […]

Daily Inspiration: “The new rule for the future? We might not know exactly where we are going – but we sure are making great time!

“The new rule for the future? We might not know exactly where we are going – but we sure are making great time!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Uncertainty is the new certainty, fuzziness is the new clarity and velocity is now the great equalizer. Companies are finding that the future is colliding with them at […]

Video: Not Just Another Talking Head on Zoom: Disrupting the Big Disruption Broadcast #2!

Tired of Zoom webinars that all look the same? (A note from Jim, November 2020: this particular show was VERY EARLY on in Jim’s voyage into virtual events. Check his page, https://virtual.jimcarroll.com for better, more recent examples of his work. This video is pretty marginal!) Check this out – Jim Carrol has nailed how to […]

A New Weekly Virtual Webinar: Disrupting the Big Disruption: Jim Carroll’s Weekly Review of Leadership and the Big Realignment

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the insight that I might be able to share with respect to my role as a futurist. There seems to be a lot of people putting up a lot of stuff on the s My most powerful capability over a 25 year career as a futurist has […]

Daily Inspiration: “If there was ever a time to ’THINK BIG,’ it would be at this very moment!”

“If there was ever a time to ’THINK BIG,’ it would be at this very moment!” – Futurist Jim Carroll It’s like a picture from the olden days! My time on stage! It’s hard to believe that just over two months, I was excited to launch my latest book, “Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast: […]

Daily Inspiration: “Think of the future this way: we’ve just hit a great big ‘Pause’ button. We’ll press ‘Play’ again one day!’

“Think of the future this way: we’ve just hit a great big ‘Pause’ button. We’ll press ‘Play’ again one day!’ – #Futurist Jim Carroll Anxiety, worry, uncertainty, confusion, anger, denial – these are the emotions that likely rule your day. They’ve become the new normal. It’s not a lot of fun not knowing what comes […]

Daily Inspiration: “These days, success is best measured by a few small victories that occur throughout the day, rather than the huge wins that worked before!”

“These days, success is best measured by the few small victories that occur throughout the day, rather than the huge wins that worked before!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I can tell you one thing – I’m going to have a really nice lawn! And so rather than wielding a laptop on a stage, I’m using […]

Daily Inspiration: “You will always find a way to keep doing the things that matter to you…”

“You will always find a way to keep doing the things that matter to you, if you believe it’s important enough to keep doing it!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Starting the first week of August 2016, I began my morning with a little bit of reflective thinking while have my morning coffee. I found a […]

Daily Inspiration: ““Your biggest risk comes from your ‘biggest unknowns.’”

“Your biggest risk comes from your ‘biggest unknowns.’ How do you plan to get to your future if you don’t know what it will look like when you get there?” – Futurist Jim Carroll I’ve always been mystified by the presence of people around me who go into each and every day without any idea […]

Daily Inspiration: “The timing of the arrival of the future is ultimately unknowable – but requires extremely careful planning!”

“The timing of the arrival of the future is ultimately unknowable – but requires extremely careful planning!” -#Futurist Jim Carroll When it comes to the future today – timing is everything! The issue is providing the key structure for many of my keynote topics, to such a degree, that later on today I’ll release a […]

Innovation – What To Do and What Not to Do!

During a Q&A on stage in New Orleans, I was asked what organizations should do to try to accelerate their innovation capabilities. Watch my response: concise and to the point!

Accelerate Your Creativity: Develop Your Own Masters in Business Imagination Degree!

The skills you have will NOT take you into a faster future. The era of acceleration demands that you have new and unique skills – including an overdose of creative thinking. With that in mind, maybe you should pursue a Masters in Business Imagination! I first proposed the idea over 15 years ago – I […]

Insight 2020: Leadership Strategies for the Era of Acceleration #21 – Realize The Future is Bigger Than You Think!

Spend a moment to think about the scope of the dramatic change that we are now witnessing all around us. We are moving from an era of gas and diesel cars that people drive, to vehicles with big batteries that drive themselves. A world of retail in which more stuff comes to us rather than […]

Daily Inspiration: “It’s when you limit your thinking that you limit your opportunity!”

“It’s when you limit your thinking that you limit your opportunity!” – Futurist Jim Carroll No one ever achieved great success by concentrating on the past – it’s by thinking about where you can go with your future that you can somehow manage to get there! With that, today I’ll wrap up the video series […]

Insight 2020: Leadership Strategies for the Era of Acceleration #19 – Study the Edges

The future is being invented all around you – and sometimes you don’t know where to look! That’s why you need to ‘study the edges’ – as a leader, you need to learn to look all around you, in unique locations, for the trends and innovations that will redefine and disrupt your future. Here’s the […]

Want to Get Ahead in a Big Disruptive World? Be Like Fiji!

Here’s a fun clip from my recent talk for a global event the International Finance Corporation / World Bank in Morocco. When the world gets you down? Pick yourself up again – be like Fiji!

Reinvent!

It’s a theme!

Insight 2020: Leadership Strategies for the Era of Acceleration #13 – Rethink Your Product

What you sell, how you sell it, the way you explain it, the utility it provides, the value it has, the manner by which you service and repair it – these are all changing quickly in the era of smart, hyperconnected intelligent devices. If you don’t align to that reality, you won’t keep up with […]

Insight 2020: Leadership Strategies for the Era of Acceleration #12 – Jump Forward

In the era of acceleration, one thing is certain : what worked for you in the past likely won’t work for you tomorrow. And all too often, that very thing you do might doom you in the future. That’s because all the assumptions that you might make as to how tomorrow will unfold are based […]

Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast : Book Now Available on Amazon Worldwide

We’ve finally straightened out the ISBN issues, and my new book is now live on Amazon. US orders here: https://www.amazon.com/Think-Start-Small-Scale-Fast/dp/097365547X Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/Think-Start-Small-Scale-Fast/dp/097365547X UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Think-Start-Small-Scale-Fast/dp/097365547X Germany: https://www.amazon.de/Think-Start-Small-Scale-Fast/dp/097365547X

Daily Inspiration: “It’s by thinking BIG that you can make the first small steps of your journey happen!”

“It’s by thinking BIG that you can make the first small steps of your journey happen!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Wow, what a busy screen! It’s got to be horrifying for any graphic designer, but since I think I failed art in kindergarten, I’m going to run with it! It’s day #8 of the series, […]

Insight 2020: Leadership Strategies for the Era of Acceleration #8 – Think BIG!

Leadership is all about setting the direction, inspiring the team to achieve, and establishing the goals of the journey. What’s the purpose of it if you are only going to try to accomplish small things? People didn’t get to the moon by being small and timid, by pursuing the same old ideas, or setting extremely small […]