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JIM’S INSIGHTS

COVID-19 has transformed business forever.
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!

Old World “Not Hot”: Phoning it In. New World “Hot”: Not Zooming It In!

Through my 25 year speaking career, I have had the opportunity to form close relationships with many of the top speakers bureaus in the world. They are important and invaluable partners. And with that, I always have my pinch me moments when I find myself talking with the same agents who are booking Barack and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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!

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 […]

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: “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 […]