Insight Index - Futurist, Professional Optimist, Keynote Speaker: Business Trends Expert

JIM’S INSIGHTS

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!

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 […]

Daily Inspiration: “The easiest decision that you can make is to decide to do what you’ve always done before. Yet in your heart, you know it’s not the right decision!”

“The easiest decision that you can make is to decide to do what you’ve always done before. Yet in your heart, you know it’s not the right decision!” – Futurist Jim Carroll The process by which people *don’t* book me is always an interesting one. It teaches me a lot about corporate groupthink & why […]

The 10 Words That Can Jumpstart Your Innovation Efforts!

Last month, the Entrepreneur and Family Business Council of DePaul University had me in for a talk to their members – essentially, owners of medium sized enterprises from throughout the Chicago region. It was held in the Klairmont Kollections museum – what a fabulous event location. I got to hang with what’s known as the […]

Keynote Clip: On Stage at the World Government Summit In Dubai

It’s the era of acceleration: are you too slow when the world is too fast? It was a thrill to keynote the World Government Summit in Dubai in 2018, with a talk on the challenges and opportunities that exist in our fast future. Previous speakers included @BarackObama @elonmusk @stevewoz & @richardbranson – what fun to […]

Daily Inspiration: “…incremental innovation? A continuous series of mistakes…”

“The best definition of incremental innovation? A continuous series of mistakes, each of them part of a non-stop learning opportunity!” -Futurist Jim Carroll You won’t always get it right the first time. In fact, it might take you many times before you figure out the solution to your problem. As in – ‘it’s learning by […]

What is Innovation? This Is!

Rethink it! It’s about asking yourself three questions – what can I do to run the business better? Grow the business? And most important, transform the business!

Pardon Me While I Interrupt Your Complacency! Companies Die From Organizational Sclerosis: Here’s Why!

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! […]