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
end up with the same old thing!
I do a lot of Fortune 1000 leadership events. By way of example, I’ll be spending time with a massive manufacturer in the rail industry in just a few weeks, and will deliver them a highly customized talk that will help them accelerate their innovation efforts. For them, it’s important that my leadership keynote speaks […]
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Every industry and business will find more change in the next 5 years than in the last 100. What will YOU do with this reality? How do you achieve agility in a fast moving environment and adapt to the era of acceleration? Think about these key ideas: structure for execution rebuild your competitive intelligence capabilities […]
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Not only are innovative people unafraid to ask questions, they are prepared to go even further. They aren’t afraid to: ask the tough questions that no one else will dare address act on the answers to those tough questions! ask questions that make people uncomfortable challenge others to ask tough questions ask why it has […]
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Do you? It can be difficult to try to be innovative in many organizations. Many people with an innovation-oriented mindset often find their enthusiasm destroyed when they approach senior management with an initiative. And when their effort is turned back, it can extremely frustrating! What happens is that a series of excuses are made as to […]
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This is fun! A post a few days ago of my Masters in Business Imagination Manifesto caught the attention of a client who knows they need to move fast — and who thought that would be a great topic for their event. They moved fast – and booked me because they know that they require […]
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Does your organization have a culture that has it perfectly aligned for failure? Probably! I see it all the time, and I can tell you exactly the mindset that your organization has, with a simple little list of questions…. read them below. The fact is, I spend a LOT of time doing talks at corporate […]
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I spend my time providing guidance on future trends & innovation to some of the most fascinating companies and organizations in the world, such as Disney, NASA, BASF, and IBM. Often these are in the form of offsite senior executive leadership meetings …. where a team gets together to examine the deep, substantive changes that […]
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I’ve been quite priviliged through the years to be able to observe, within my global blue chip client base , some of the fascinating innovation strategies that market leaders have pursued. What is it they do? Many of them make big, bold decisions that help to frame their innovative thinking and hence, their active strategies. For […]
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Earlier this week, I was the opening keynote speaker for EdNET 2016, a conference focused on those in the business and preparing knowledge delivery tools for the K-12 sector (aka textbooks!) It was a fun talk! Rather than speaking to the specifics of the education industry, I took an in depth look at the global […]
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Over the last month or so, I’ve started to put online a series of inspirational quotes and observations on my Instagram account – you can follow me at futuristjimcarroll. Sometimes these involve comments and observations around innovation — I saw this one today, for example, about Tesla Motors! It aligns perfectly to my key […]
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Last week, I was the opening keynote speaker for a small insurance industry group — and had senior executives of quite a few major property & casualty and life insurance companies in the room. As always, I undertook an extensive amount of detailed research on the latest status of innovation within the industry. In addition, […]
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I’m about to head out the door to Amelia Island, Florida, where tomorrow morning I will do a talk for a small group of senior executives from the insurance industry — both property & casualty as well as life insurance companies. I’m thinking its going to be a great talk — built around the theme, […]
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The other day, my son and I visited Agnora, a world class innovator in the architectural glass industry. They produce the glass you see in Apple Stores, at the TKTS ticket booth in Times Square, and many more! We filmed a video promo clip for my upcoming keynote for the 2016 Greater Philadelphia Manufacturing Summit – […]
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What are the big issues that organizations need to be focused on? Think about three simple words: transformation, acceleration, and collaboration. That’s been the focus of a number of CEO-level keynotes I’ve done. A good example was a dinner keynote I did for key clients of BASF, a global chemicals company, in San Antonio, […]
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The last several months have involved a tremendous number of unique, and exhilarating keynote presentations. Every once in a while I offer up a summary of what I’ve been doing, as it proves to be useful to potential clients who are exploring my services. It also will give you a sense of the tremendous range […]
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Innovation comes from risk, and risk comes from experience. The most important asset today isn’t found on your balance sheet – it is found in the accumulated wisdom from the many risks that you’ve taken. The more experiential capital you have, the more you’ll succeed. Investing in experiential capital is one of the most important […]
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Innovation is a mindset. Do you have what it takes? Here’s a few simple thoughts on how to get out of your innovation rut! Reward failure, and tone down the “I told-you-so’s” Too many people think when times are volatile, that it’s not a good time to focus on big ideas. Not true! Consider history: many […]
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A short, quick clip that will help you to rethink the idea of innovation! “You have the opportunity to innovate with your business model to do great things!”
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When should you focus on innovation? The high-velocity economy demands that you do things in different ways — how will you ingest future trends to your advantage? A video clip for an audience of 7,000 in Las Vegas!
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#brexit #uselection #economicmeltdown Suddenly, there’s a lot of uncertainty in the world. Senior executives who are focused on trying to move their organizations are discovering that aggressive indecision has set in. What should you do? Here’s some video guidance for your innovation soul! [smartslider3 slider=18]
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I have many speaker bureau business partners –agents around the world who book me into association or corporate events. One of these is Speaking.com, and a fellow named Mike Frick, who has booked me into many events in past years. They recently ran an interview with me around one of my key topics, “What Do […]
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I’ve written another article for the global GE Reports publication : you can find it online here. The U.S. and other countries are doomed by tremendous water usage and leaky infrastructure. But a thirst for innovative solutions is leading entrepreneurs and communities to rethink ways to use everyday wastewater. Let’s talk about water. There are […]
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A quick video clip from my keynote for QAD 2016 in Chicago.
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How can you best guide your organization into a faster future? As someone who spends a lot of time talking, writing and speaking about trends and innovation, and who is constantly taking a look at trends, I have a list of what I think works. 1. Listen to the grassroots With the rapid rate of […]
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