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.
Back in 2009, Business Week ran an article, “10 Worst Innovation Mistakes in a Recession.” At the time, I was busy with a number of global companies helping them to focus on strategies to accelerate through the downturn. With that in mind, I wrote in the comments section of their article: “It’s easy to point out […]
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You might have caught the video series I was running in January – Insight 2020: Leadership Strategies for the Era of Acceleration. If not, hit the page: you’ll find it full of cutting edge insight as to what today’s leaders are doing to align their organization to our faster future! I’ve also put together this […]
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“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 […]
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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 […]
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Product lifecycles have become shorter ; market longevity is not guaranteed; new competitors emerge faster; customers display less loyalty. These trends and many more mean that you don’t have any guarantee that the product or service that you are offering today will be in demand tomorrow – or even relevant. That’s why you need to […]
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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 […]
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I’m in the midst of running a leadership series through the month of January – Insight 2020 : Leadership Strategies in the Era of Acceleration. A few folks have written : what do you mean by ‘the era of acceleration?’ It’s the key, massive disruptive and transformation trends that I talk about in this video. […]
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The issue of timing really became a focus of many of my keynotes over the last while – here’s a clip from my keynote in Morocco for the International Finance Corporation / World Bank just a few months ago at a major global manufacturing conference. For more context? Read my post Timing is Everything: Jim Carroll’s […]
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Find your penguins! Grok manure managers! What’s this all about? It goes way back to an article I wrote in my column in Profit, and even earlier than that, in my book, Survving the Information Age. Read the article “I found the future in manure!” Quite simply, our complex future means that you’ll never ever, […]
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If you could do it alone, you would have already achieved what you needed to achieve! But in the era of acceleration, the world is far too complex to navigate on your own. The only solution? Partner up! That’s leadership strategy #4 in my series of how to deal with the speed of change today! […]
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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 […]
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What you did yesterday won’t work for you tomorrow. Here’s why.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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For over 20 years, I’ve been preaching that as long as corporate boards do not have specific responsibility for computer security and privacy in their skills matrix, the company will be at risk. That trend will only accelerate into the next decade. I expect we will actually see a few Fortune 1000 companies disappear because […]
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It’s the ‘era of acceleration’ and a race to the future. Were you even at the starting gate? Based on my ’19 Trends for 2019′, I put out this 15 minute video at the start of the year to provide some insight on some of the unique and diverse trends that will change your future, […]
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A few months ago, the National Safety Council had me as the closing keynote speaker for their massive annual conference – and I spoke to a few thousand safety professionals on issues surrounding new, emerging, accelerating risk. Including a story of what happened when Rosie the Robot from the Jetsons went rogue! Enjoy! (Note: I’m […]
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Some months back, I was I’m killing some time waiting for ay flight in Paris’s Charles deGaulle airport. With a little bit of jet-lag, needed to keep myself awake – so I wrote a parody of my Web page, Why Book Jim, with one called Why You Should Not Book Jim. It’s a fun read! […]
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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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“Great ideas die when a leadership team develops an organizational sclerosis that clogs up their ability to deal with the future!” – Futurist Jim Carroll It was back about 2002 that I started speaking about the innovation killers on stage – my list of the attitudes and cultures that kill innovation in its tracks: https://innovationkillers.jimcarroll.com […]
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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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I had a keynote for the National Safety Council a few weeks ago in San Diego – the largest gathering of workplace safety professionals in the world – with a talk that was to look at the future of safety risk. While preparing for my talk, I went golfing, while thinking about my talk. Of […]
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