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
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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 […]
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Here’s a brief highlight clip from a recent event – all about the attitude that you carry towards what comes next. Food for thought!
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Back in 2003, I pretty much predicted the emergence of the Tesla business model and the disruption occurring today in the automotive industry. I had the details wrong though – in that I suggested that it would Google building this future! It doesn’t matter – the idea was right. Give it a watch!
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“Don’t get trapped in a state of ‘perpetual pilot purgatory’ – because the future won’t wait on your indecision!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I’m in Austin, Texas today, and later today will be the opening keynote speaker for the Schneider Electric 2019 Foxboro & Triconex User Groups meeting. Essentially, a room full of industrial engineers […]
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Get inspired with this assortment of clips from keynotes on the stage…
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“Imaginate more! Sweat the ‘big stuff’ – don’t get distracted by the details!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Of course, it’s not a word, but it should be! And the Urban Dictionary actually defines ‘imaginate’ this way: “To be in the process of imagining, to form a mental picture of, to think, or believe. i.e. sometimes […]
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From the vaults: I’m on stage, opening the 2010 US Air Force & Navy Child Youth Program event in Dallas. I’m brought in on an event initiative by @MichelleObama, who had the goal of providing more support for child support workers – parents & staff on military bases. My theme? Innovation!
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“Maybe you can get to the future faster – if you accelerate your imagination and turn your mind into an engine of ingenuity!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Here’s an interesting reality – innovators and disruptors arrive at the future faster. They invent the things that the rest of us will use tomorrow. They pursue ideas […]
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“Do what you’ve always done, and you’ll get what you’ve always got.” So goes the phrase. Which increasingly, in a world in which the era of acceleration is changing what you sell and how you sell it, is a recipe for disaster. With that, I give you what I’ve learned about internal sales force and […]
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Your legacy is your death. Watch this clip – CEO’s are talking about the need to provide for revenue streams where revenue didn’t exist before, from products not previously in existence. That’s your future realty!
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“A brand today can go from hero to zero in a matter of months….” 10 years ago, I was on stage for global organizations advising them that the next decade would see them face tremendous challenges as the era of social media, product obsolescence and new competitors hit the essence of their branding soul. I […]
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“Is your brand suddenly something from the ‘olden days?’” – Futurist Jim Carroll Here’s an interesting reality: your brand is no longer what you say it is – it’s what ‘they’ say it is! Who is the ‘they?’ The collective public, swimming through the river of social media, floating their brain waves through the Web, […]
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We live in a time of massive challenge, and yet one of massive opportunity. Every industry is being redefined at blinding speed by technology, globalization, the rapid emergence of new competitors, new forms of collaborative global R&D, and countless other challenges! The speed with which these changes occur are now being increasingly driven by the […]
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On stage in London, England. Are you stuck in a 110 year old rut?
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“What’s your tin can?” – Futurist Jim Carroll Are you stuck in a tin can rut? Have you seen the StarKist Tuna plastic re-sealable pouch? That little package – a new product innovation if there ever was one – was responsible for almost $200 million in new revenue since it first hit the shelves years […]
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Some people see the future with fear – you should see it as something full of opportunity! Here’s an edited clip of my recent keynote for 2,000 people in San Diego at the 2019 National Safety Council annual conference. Words to live by.
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We live in a time of massive challenge and opportunity. Every industry is impacted by business model disruption, the emergence of new competitors, the impact of technology, the collapse of product lifecycle, political volatility and customers that continue to challenge businesses with their increasingly complex needs. The very things that have worked for us in […]
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The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, is having me in to Marrakesh to headline their 2nd global conference on manufacturing in just over a month. Learn more about the event here. They recently interviewed me on some of the manufacturing trends and opportunities that I see in the world today. […]
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“The biggest problem with the information age is that everybody is busy making up their own information. We’ve entered the ‘era of disbelief,’ and it won’t end well!” – Futurist Jim Carroll The damage being done is incalculable. What happens to a society when no one believes anything & nothing is real? This: Trend: The […]
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The quality is kind of shaking, but here’s a clip from my opening keynote for the global Swiss Innovation Forum way back in 2006!
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One of the world’s largest restaurant companies had me in keynote a massive global leadership meeting – and asked me to share my insight on what they could do to align themselves to the high velocity change which surrounds them. This was the result!
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“Be like Oblio. Embrace your inner oddness!” – Futurist Jim Carroll At some point in time you might realize that you are different from everyone else. Run with it! Yesterday, I obtained the ISBN for what will become my 37th book in a career as an author over 25 years – in this case, “Think […]
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So I went to Torrey Pines for a keynote, had a round of golf, and cut a video. Learn more about my keynote topic, Driving the Future – Linking the Acceleration of Golf to The Speed of Business, over at https://jimcarroll.golf
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