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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!

How to Buy Advance Orders of Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast (When Amazon Messes Up)

It’s tremendously exciting when you launch a new book. I’ve been at it for 25+ years! It’s overwhelmingly frustrating when the book is ready to go, and you are at the whim of Amazon’s automated print on demand systems to make it available. Let’s just say, those automated systems aren’t working well. Somehow they got […]

Stickmen! Want to Be Creative? Get Ready for Everyone to Try to Crush Your Creativity!

I recut this video clip last night as part of my series today, “Imaginate More!” I like this music better, so even though I’ve posted it before, I’ll repost it! if you are going to imaginate more, expect to be surrounded by people who will set out to crush your creativity! That was certainly my […]

Announcing My Newest Book: “Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast: Stories from the Stage on Disruption, Transformation and the Accelerating Future”

I am beyond thrilled to announce the release of my latest book, “Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast: Stories from the Stage on Disruption, Transformation and the Accelerating Future” What does the book cover? It is a story of inspiration, observation and transformation : and provides motivational guidance to those who seek how to navigate […]

Video From the Vaults: “Aggressive Indecision” and “Committing to It!”

So, this morning I went and retrieved a video from the vault, and cut a little section out of it – around the theme of aggressive indecision. Based on my previous post today, the story of aggressive indecision originated at the height of the US-Iraq Persian Gulf War (round 2) in 2002-03. What I noticed […]

It’s 2020: Time to SuperCharge Your Thinking!

I’ve been blogging since early 2002, and have a ton of insight within my site. One of my resolutions was to do a better job at presenting it to the world. With that, here’s a gallery that will lead you into some of the best of my innovation, transformation and disruptive trend written pieces. Click […]

Daily Inspiration: “Think bigger – don’t focus on just one new year, but think instead about a ‘new life resolution!’”

“Think bigger – don’t focus on just one new year, but think instead about a ‘new life resolution!’” – #Futurist Jim Carroll This whole New Years Resolution thing has been wrong the whole time! Happy New Years!

What World Class Leadership Looked Like in 2019: A Focus on Big Ideas, Transformation, Disruption, Velocity and Risk!

This year marks 25 years that I’ve appeared on stage speaking about the future, trends, disruption, transformation, innovation. And what a year it was! I always emphasize to my global client base that they’ll find I can take on any number of highly customized topics for their leadership meeting – you’ll learn more about that by […]

At the End of 2019, Do You Have Any Idea What Your 2030 Will Look Like?

Probably not. So watch the video below. Then, read my post, 20 Trends into 2030: Are You Ready for the Transformation of Just About Everything? You can also share it with these easy to remember link: https://2030jimcarroll.com Most people don’t understand that we now live in era in which the pace of change is no […]

20 Trends into 2030: Are You Ready for The Massive Transformation of Just About Everything?

It’s time to get your future on! In the era of acceleration, when everything is speeding up, it’s difficult to imagine where we might be in 10 years. But I can do that – that’s my job. So let me tell you where we are likely to be in 2030. First, watch this. Zager and Evans […]

Daily Inspiration: “Everything you ever want is on the other side of hope!”

“Everything you ever want is on the other side of hope!” – #Futurist Jim Carroll How does that phrase go? Hope springs eternal! Hope is the foundation of so much of how you align yourself to your future and turn it into opportunity. It’s the foundation for your optimism, the bedrock on which you place […]

Daily Inspiration: “Your best ideas will always face the most intense opposition!”

“Your best ideas will always face the most intense opposition!” – Futurist Jim Carroll That’s why they are your best ideas! So what can you expect when you present them? Revolt, dissension, complaints, excuses, dishonesty, rebellion, subterfuge, under-cutting of your agenda, disagreement, differences of opinion, defections from your team. Everywhere you look, you’ll see people […]

Daily Inspiration: “The Prime Directive of An Optimistic Futurist: ‘If time is money, then you are richer than you think!’”

“The Prime Directive of An Optimistic Futurist: ‘If time is money, then you are richer than you think!’” – Futurist Jim Carroll While I was never a hard core Trekkie, I’m a big believer that the show has had a huge impact on how we have invented our future – but perhaps more important, how […]

Daily Inspiration: “Imitation is ultimately a failure when it’s compared to the originality that lies embedded within your imagination!”

“Imitation is ultimately a failure when it’s compared to the originality that lies embedded within your imagination!” – #Futurist Jim Carroll Over the last 25 years,I’ve seen many cases where companies have jumped onto a trend simply because everyone else has! They’ve suddenly decided that a major disruptive is so important that they need to […]

Daily Inspiration: “Transformation is the new innovation!”

“Transformation is the new innovation!” – Futurist Jim Carroll The speed of change is such that it is now no longer an innovation story – it’s one of transformation! That was the message I picked up during a phone call with Jeffrey Phillips yesterday. He’s one of the smartest boots-on-the-ground innovation minds that I know, […]

You’re Structured For Slow In the Era of Fast – And You Know It’s True!

Guess what! You’re structured for slow in the era of fast! You’ve got a boat anchor puling you down. And you can’t collaborate like you should be able to. That was the key message on stage for one of my clients – and the knew it was true!

Daily Inspiration: “Committees are the black holes of the corporate universe – it’s where innovation goes to die….”

“Committees are the black holes of the corporate universe – it’s where innovation goes to die, creativity is destroyed, bright sparks of imaginative thinking are snuffed out – and a place from which no great idea or bold initiative can ever escape!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Committees are killing your future – because just as […]

10 Surefire Ways to Kill Creativity, Innovation and Strategy!

You know that you are failing. Ideas are being lost, opportunities are being squandered, initiative is in a rut. How do you know? Because you KNOW that your organization has a culture that is killing creativity. As I dig into the culture and attitude of a client through interviews with the CEO and other team […]

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 […]

Daily Inspiration: “The easiest decision that you can make is to decide to do what you’ve always done before. Yet in your heart, you know it’s not the right decision!”

“The easiest decision that you can make is to decide to do what you’ve always done before. Yet in your heart, you know it’s not the right decision!” – Futurist Jim Carroll The process by which people *don’t* book me is always an interesting one. It teaches me a lot about corporate groupthink & why […]

The 10 Words That Can Jumpstart Your Innovation Efforts!

Last month, the Entrepreneur and Family Business Council of DePaul University had me in for a talk to their members – essentially, owners of medium sized enterprises from throughout the Chicago region. It was held in the Klairmont Kollections museum – what a fabulous event location. I got to hang with what’s known as the […]

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 […]

Unique Topics, Global Events, Deep Insight, Disruptive Thinking : This is What a Futurist Does!

I’m touring over in Portugal after an opening keynote last week for an event in Morocco for the International Finance Corporation / World Bank. And while visiting a Moorish castle yesterday outside of Sintra, I got into a conversation with a fellow from New Zealand. As often happens, we shared information on our ‘jobs’, and […]

Daily Inspiration: “…incremental innovation? A continuous series of mistakes…”

“The best definition of incremental innovation? A continuous series of mistakes, each of them part of a non-stop learning opportunity!” -Futurist Jim Carroll You won’t always get it right the first time. In fact, it might take you many times before you figure out the solution to your problem. As in – ‘it’s learning by […]

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!