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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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Microsoft had me in to open one of their major customer conferences – and so I opened the event with a barnburner of a speech that outlined some of the issues we need to prepare for. Things like 3d printing human body-parts. Robotics & AI in construction. Cars as upgradeable technology platforms. Plants linked to […]
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An article posted yesterday by Safety and Health Magazine yesterday, just hours after my keynote at NSC19, the largest workplace safety conference in the world. Leadership Keynote speaker: The future is approaching rapidly, prepare now September 11, 2019 San Diego — Safety professionals need to prepare now for a future that is coming faster than […]
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“The future will happen — whether you like it or not. It’s your choice as to what role you will play when it arrives!” -Futurist Jim Carroll A photo from my keynote in San Diego yesterday for NSC2019 – the annual National Safety Council conference with 15,000 safety professionals from across the US and around […]
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“With the arrival of the sharing economy, how will you sell things to people who don’t buy things? That’s your new – and perhaps biggest – challenge!” – Futurist Jim Carroll This morning I’ll be the opening keynote speaker for AutoGlass 2019 – the annual conference of the automotive and transportation windshield repair industry. My […]
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“There’s no time to learn, to study, to plan. With that being your new reality, figure out what you don’t know, and do the things that are necessary to begin to know about it! Experiential capital is the new capital for the 21st century!” – #Futurist Jim Carroll The quote is directly from my Web […]
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“Think fast. Be faster!” – Futurist Jim Carroll In a few weeks, I’ll be speaking at Revionics Insight 2019, one of the leading events in the retail industry. As part of the process, I’ve done yet another detailed research dump – essentially, I grabbed about 750 articles about some of the latest trends sweeping the […]
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“If you can’t find an easy solution to your complex problem, you could always do a U-Haul!” – Futurist Jim Carroll You’ll often become too focused on finding the most obvious solution to a complex problem. Think differently! Which brings you to my good friend Jeanne-Marie Robillard – @jmrobillard . She’s an extraordinary account executive […]
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10 years ago, I appeared on stage in Las Vegas in front of 7,000 people, for a talk about the criticality of innovative thinking – but also reflected on how some people simply try to shut it down. Here’s an assembled clip of the highlights!
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“If time is money – invest in yourself wisely!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Every day involves a variety of choices – as to what you will do next, the path you will follow, the actions you will take, the goals you will pursue. The result of all these actions? The cumulative investment that you make […]
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“You’re going to need a bigger picture when it comes to that ‘vision thing’.” – Futurist Jim Carroll NASA didn’t get to the moon by thinking small; it didn’t set itself a small vision. Neither should you in a world in which there are new competitors eager to vanquish your business model, make your product […]
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I’ve long been accused of being relentlessly optimism in the face of long odds. It’s a message I share on stage, in my writings, and in my personal life. If you have a similar mindset, how do you maintain it? Hang out with other optimists! People who have a belief that we have an opportunity […]
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The volume of knowledge is doubling every eight years. Batteries will dominate the world of transportation going forward. 24 hour solar power plants are the future. Drones define the future. Fitbits for cows. And why my genetic profile resulted in a particular speech booking! Here’s 6 minutes that will help you understand that your future […]
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Why is this so? What should you do? Here’s a few clips to get you thinking! Learn how to deal with these challenges by visiting my Innovation Killers resource page.
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“To supercharge your creativity, fire up your internal rebelalyzer!” – Futurist Jim Carroll If it’s not a word, it should be! And if you are going to be a rebel, you’d better make sure that you regularly recharge your rebelliousness. Carry your rebelalyzer with you everywhere you go, ready to fire up your rebellious attitude! […]
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Here’s a clip for you to watch; it’s from an event I spoke at a few weeks ago in San Diego. It speaks for itself. Often, when I am speaking about innovation, I will bring up this concept of a #MOTOFail. Essentially, don’t be Motorola. Don’t dare to presume that what you have done in the past […]
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Here’s a clip to get you thinking – my closing comments from my keynote for the PGA of America. In the room, I’ve got 500 golf professionals who are members of this, the largest working sports organization in the world. I’ve just done a talk on how they should be thinking about opportunities to grow […]
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I’ve been blogging since 2002, and over the last 17 years, I’ve pulled into my site A LOT of insight on future trends and innovation. In my old site, these were easily accessible via one section – but they didn’t fit well into the general structure of my new Web site. I’m still busy integrating […]
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“Inaction is deadly: at this very moment, someone is busy working to destroy your business model!” – #Futurist Jim Carroll I meet some senior executives within my global clients for whom it seems that doing nothing has become the norm. Decisions are deferred, because it is easier to deny the future than it is to […]
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Here’s a big issue to wrap your head around – increasingly, your opportunity for future success will come from your ability to get the timing right! That issue has been the focus of an increasing number of my keynotes as of late: a recent one in the construction sector for Matheson Financial Advisors – a […]
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You should know what you don’t know! Because if you don’t, you won’t know! With that idea in mind, here’s a line of questions you might to try to challenge yourself when it comes to your ability to deal with the future and your own knowledge. Why don’t you know what you should know? Why […]
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A video clip from my keynote yesterday for several hundred educators and executives for the Career Education College Education conference in New Orleans. One day, we’ll look back at today, and realize that our world was kind of quaint in terms of the big transformative trends which were unfolding. Your future is way bigger than […]
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