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!
Since August 2016, due to a variety of complex personal situations, I began blogging my “Daily Inspiration” posts. First thing, every morning, before I start anything else during the day. I call it my ‘silent moment of meditation’ as I motivate myself – and others – with some sort of post about the future, innovation, […]
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One of my favorite bits of insight I like to share from the stage concerns the story of the ‘two types of farmers.’ Which one are you? Check the list below. Watch this short clip from one of my last in-person keynotes just before Covid. There’s what we might call the stuck-skeptics, who have attitudes […]
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It’s that simple. Here’s a simple list of companies that were once great successes. Then they weren’t: Blockbuster. Borders. Lehman Bros. Kodak. Circuit City. RadioShack. Pan-Am. Enron. E.F. Hutton.RCA. Tower Records. Polaroid. Woolworths. Compaq. Arthur Anderson. The list could go on…. companies that were leaders in their time, and then failed, due to a lack of […]
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It means you are in pretty big trouble. I hit my virtual broadcast studio to explain why. Why does this happen? Straight to the point – it’s because of these failures in leadership: Here’s the list. You know I’m right! they don’t know what’s next they don’t want to know what’s next they refuse to […]
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I just sent out a short e-mail blast to the many speaker bureau partners who have worked with me through the years. They represent folks like Barak and Michelle Obama, Richard Branson and Jack Nicklaus, George Bush, and me! (I always pinch myself, but hey, I do great work!) Many have brought me into global […]
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Are there signs of greater turnover in your customer base, or more competitors in your industry than ever before? Is your top line getting hammered at the same time that your costs keep going up? Are your products or services becoming a commodity in an increasingly complex marketplace? Have you been so focused on managing […]
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“We always need to remember where we were to know where we should be going!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Most lives and careers consist of a series of successive wins and losses, writ into a story of continuous innovation and reinvention. If you do the right things and make the right decisions, you’ll end up […]
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“It’s when you are thinking about your last mistake that you will make your next mistake!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Success comes from a series of mistakes, frequently repeated. Failure is good for you – fail early, fail fast, fail often! That type of wisdom is true because a great deal of success comes from […]
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From a keynote for Philips Medical Devices – with the basic message that the product they are selling is no longer a single, standalone product. Instead, it’s become a hyper-connected, highly intelligent medical device. It’s not a widget anymore. Over the years, many senior executives have brought me into corporate leadership meetings to help their […]
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Think big! Most fast! Start now! A selection of clips from the stage!
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I’ve long observed when challenging my audience to align to the future, that there are 3 types of people in my audience: those who watch the future happen those who make the future happen and those who react, “whoah, how did that happen?” Here’s a clip where I am talking about that issue … and […]
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It’s quite true. Some people have a very narrow view of the world and never achieve too much. Innovators have a wide-open mind and change the world in new and continuous ways. Consider the differences. Some people see a trend and see a threat. Innovators see the same trend and see an opportunity. Some people […]
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The following article was published in AkzoNoble’s “A” Magazine, featuring some of my thoughts on innovation in organizations. The organization is the largest global paints and coatings company and is a leading producer of specialty chemicals. The article is a good read as to how I think and work. It was distributed in print form […]
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“Failure? It’s an attitude that is often preceded by its actual occurrence” – Futurist Jim Carroll Have you ever noticed that you are surrounded by people who seem determined to set you on a path to failure? Or who somehow seem to find joy in some weird passion to bring you down than to build […]
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So – someone asked me if I delivered canned insight. LOL. I’ll just give you this playlist to start. And then, let me share what I really do. I decided to start listing a few clients with a short overview of the unique keynote titles or topic spin that formed the basis for my keynote […]
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KEYNOTE: Bridging the Acceleration Gap: Achieving Growth By Aligning to The Post-Pandemic Future The global pandemic has changed the axis of our universe. What was disruptive before is now massively transformative. Do you have a strategy to keep up? Pre-pandemic, CEOs and organizations were dealing with a world of business model disruption, the acceleration of technology, the […]
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You’re stuck. Fading into irrelevancy! Dying from organizational sclerosis every single day. Killing yourself with inaction. You know it’s true, don’t you! Because you keep on making the same old excuses, each and every day, that validate your belief that you don’t need to change. As that famous philosopher once said: LOL. The joke will be […]
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What trends are worth watching as we start to enter an eventual weird, post-Covid economy? How do you distinguish real trends from fads? What really matters? I took these questions on in my “Ask a Futurist” video today. I covered a lot of stuff – fad trends like NFT (nonfungible tokens), Clubhouse and meme-investing which […]
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Relentless volatility. Ongoing uncertainty. Information ambiguity. Unreliability. A lack of clarity. Ongoing vulnerability. Welcome to your new future. What’s your plan? My ongoing research, trends tracking and client discussions tell me that we are faced with a future in which you now need to move at lightning speed, without really knowing what might come next. […]
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The ultimate impact of Covid-19 on your future? Beyond the fact that we will be living in a somewhat surreal and unusual future, another fact remains – every organization is entering a new future in which a new era of massive acceleration defines everything you will do. I hit the virtual broadcast studio in my […]
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Because if you don’t fail, you aren’t learning! Here’s some inspiration to get you going. I seem to write about beneficial failure a lot in my Daily Inspiration posts!
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Are you doing marginal things when you could be doing so much better? Dedicated to my wonderful sister Dorothy, who we lost to pancreatic cancer just over two years ago. Don’t live a monochromatic life – live in technicolor!
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So when do you innovate? Right now! For some reason, my sound configuration was off – but still a good story.
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