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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!

A Little Bit of Insight

I’ve been blogging since 2002, and over the last 17 years, I’ve pulled into my site A LOT of insight on future trends and innovation. In my old site, these were easily accessible via one section – but they didn’t fit well into the general structure of my new Web site. I’m still busy integrating […]

Timing is Everything: Jim Carroll’s 5 Rules on Aligning to the Future!

Here’s a big issue to wrap your head around – increasingly, your opportunity for future success will come from your ability to get the timing right! That issue has been the focus of an increasing number of my keynotes as of late: a recent one in the construction sector for Matheson Financial Advisors – a […]

Why don’t you know what you should know? Do you actually know what you don’t know? 5 Questions to Assess Your Insight!

You should know what you don’t know! Because if you don’t, you won’t know! With that idea in mind, here’s a line of questions you might to try to challenge yourself when it comes to your ability to deal with the future and your own knowledge. Why don’t you know what you should know? Why […]

Are You a World Class Innovator? Do You Have What It Takes?

Are you really accomplishing great things in the era of acceleration – when the future belongs to those who are fast? Or are you a bit performer, a marginal success, failing to rise to your potential? Before I went on stage for the massive Microsoft FutureNow event, I filmed a clip that outlined what it […]

Why Innovation Thrives in the Building of Sandcastles!

I’ll be busy studying some key innovation issues for the next week. I have assembled a crack project team with detailed skills to assist me with my research! Way back in 2006, inspired by similar times, I wrote about how innovation thrives in the building of sandcastles! It was a great post — and it […]

Daily Inspiration: “Your challenge is probably within your Innovation & Creativity Prevention Department!”

“Your challenge is probably within your Innovation & Creativity Prevention Department!” – #Futurist Jim Carroll Many people hate those who are different. Just look at our world of politics. It is tiresome. From a business perspective, people also hate those who have creative ideas, are willing to challenge the status quo, and who are prepared to act […]

Daily Inspiration: “Creativity doesn’t flame out – it simply needs a different type of fuel!”

“Creativity doesn’t flame out – it simply needs a different type of fuel!” – #Futurist Jim Carroll Sometimes a creative soul can temporarily lose their creativity. That can be a bit of a problem if you haven’t experienced that particular type of problem, and you aren’t sure of a particular path to recovery! The thing is, you […]

Trend: IOT? It’s Early Days Yet, and Most Products So Far are a Big Failure!

In the last few months, I’ve had two keynotes where I’ve put in perspective the marriage of the Internet of Things with blockchain as a trend. This is a pretty massive issue yet one with a lot of hype and hysteria. I’ll have lots to post and say in the coming months on it. Here’s […]

Going the Extra Mile – A Relentless Focus on Innovation! (Videos)

BathFitter is a Canadian company that specializes in customized bathtub inserts – they’re an extremely successful company with an envious track record of growth.They know they can’t rest on their laurels thought, and so they are having me in this morning to keynote their annual franchise meeting. The fun thing is that they tried to […]

Daily Inspiration: “When your creativity runs low … top up at the imagination bank!”

“When your creativity runs low and there are no ideas left in your tank, top up your creativity at the the imagination bank!” – #Futurist Jim Carroll I had nothing this morning. No ideas for my morning quote. Thunderstorms rolled through last night, so it was a restless sleep for a while. So I thought about the […]

Video: Are You Structured for Speed?

Probably not. Agility and flexibility in the retail sector is critical; I’m on stage in Orlando speaking to the issue of speed in retail.

Daily Inspiration: “Never underestimate the ability of remarkable individuals or successful companies to implode!”

It probably means that you are in pretty big trouble. Over the last 25 years, I’ve been brought into an extensive number of Fortune 1000 leadership meetings at a senior level in order to speak about future trends an innovation – simply take a look at my client list to get a sense of who […]