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We’re in big time summer slowdown here now for quite a few weeks ….. yet you can never stop thinking about how to ensure that creativity and innovation can continue to blossom. With that line of thinking,. here’s my list of “10 Reasons Why Innovation Thrives in the Building of Sandcastles: and What We Can […]
Read MoreThere are a few news stories today about Tesla Motors, which includes some of the founders of Google, involved in an effort to build a new electric car. Let’s just call it the Google Car. I’ve been predicting this type of massive market shift since sometime in 2004; there’s a video clip from January 2006 […]
Read MoreI’ve just returned from Vail after doing a keynote and workshop for the American Nursery and Landscape Association. As the session description for the afternoon workshop commented: “Your mind is spinning from the morning’s trends discussion. Now it’s time to turn those trends and challenges into a tangible business opportunity! After 100 years, StarKist finally […]
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A journalist recently asked me about the future of snowboarding; there’s a lot going on with “sticks and planks” as people have come to call them. snowboards and skis will continue to gain intelligence. Rapid advances in on-board chip technology, combined witih insight into kinesiology, will see a lot more on-board motion analysis as well […]
Read MoreThere have been dozens of keynotes through the last few months. All kinds of industries; executives; professionals; markets; challenges. There’s a lot of change going on out there, and the brutal reality is that some get it — and a lot do not. Each and every keynote has involved a lot of research, plenty of […]
Read MoreIn a recent presentation and Profit article, I focused on how organizations and leaders must incorporate four key capabilities: agility, insight, innovation and execution. Corporate agility concept is perhaps the most critical: organizations must presume that the rate of change today is so fast that product lifecycles are collapsing, business models are relentlessly shifting, and […]
Read MoreI’ve just flown out west to do a dinner keynote for a major telecom company. I wrote an article on my way related to what I’ve been talking about within the context of this and related industries. I opened the article with these comments: “If there are three key words that should carry organizations and […]
Read MoreBased on the email response and media coverage, my keynote at the SCTE in Tampa yesterday caused a bit of a buzz. There’s an article from MultiChannel News (see below) that takes a look at my remarks. A key message seems to be sticking: cable companies should not go to war with their customers. Recently, […]
Read MoreFrom an article I wrote for The Boardroom, a publication for associaton executives: “Take the time to do this simple to test to determine if your association and its members are in the right frame of mind for remarkably new and innovative things, or whether they and you are stuck in a rut, unable to […]
Read MoreI recently keynoted the Furniture Today 2005 Leadership conference in Miami. This article reports on my talk. Futurist: Changes will present new opportunities Furniture Today, 12/14/2005 . MIAMI — If you aren’t comfortable with change, you probably won’t like Jim Carroll’s vision of the future. “Everything is changing so fast, you don’t know what is […]
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Fortune Magazine’s Business Innovation blog linked to my “infinite idea loop” video clip, and the traffic has been pretty heavy from right around the world. They had this to say of my clip on how innovation has forever changed in the context of what I call “the infinite idea loop: “It’s hard to discuss all […]
Read MoreOne of the biggest challenges in writing a book is getting the title right….. and this one has taken a long time. But while sitting here today in the snow! it finally clicked in: and it will come out :The Masters of Business Imagination: Why It’s the Only Degree You’ll Ever Need. Another alternative: :The […]
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