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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!

Daily Inspiration – Marketing & Branding – “When the old rules no longer apply, it’s time to make some new ones!”

“When the old rules no longer apply, it’s time to make some new ones!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Here’s a video of a rancher serenading his herd home with his trombone. Posted more than 8 years ago, the video has had more than 24 million views. Think about that! This fact has relevance to the […]

Daily Inspiration: Innovative Thinking – “Dare to differ. Be that one in every crowd!”

“Dare to differ. Be that one in every crowd!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Some people. Innovative people. Spot the difference! 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. […]

Daily Inspiration : Creativity & Innovation – “Every great idea was once on the edge of discovery!”

“Every great idea was once on the edge of discovery!” – Futurist Jim Carroll All around you at this very moment in time, some individuals are working away on the next great idea, chasing the next great discovery, and looking for the next great solution. They are always just on the edge of discovery. Most […]

Daily Inspiration: Creativity and Innovation – “There’s nothing worse than not trying!”

“There’s nothing worse than not trying!” – Futurist Jim Carroll My wife and I have recently been watching the show “Anything is Possible” over on the Disney Channel – it’s a 6-part series about the special effects company Industrial Light and Magic. You can watch the trailer here. And I must say, there are so […]

Daily Inspiration: “Creativity capital, experiential capital, collaborative capital, generational capital – these are now the new requirements necessary for innovation success!”

“Creativity capital, experiential capital, collaborative capital, generational capital – these are now the new requirements necessary for innovation success!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Enhance your balance sheet! You need to understand what’s necessary with 21st-century capital: and why it’s not just financial capital anymore! In the 20th century, financial capital was the resource of choice. That […]

Daly Inspiration: Creativity & Innovation – “Stop trying to be like everyone else. Just be yourself!”

“Stop trying to be like everyone else. Just be yourself!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Don’t twist yourself into knots trying to conform! If you are unique, celebrate it and run with it – because that is often the key pathway to success. Think about it – when you are true to yourself, you are more […]

Daily Inspiration: Innovation & Leadership – “Is your future happening in a garage at this very moment? (And are you even aware what’s happening?)”

“Is your future happening in a garage at this very moment? (And are you even aware what’s happening?)” – Futurist Jim Carroll We live in disruptive, transformative times, in which new companies are developing new products and services that might displace legacy organizations. Some of them might be working at this very moment in the […]

Daily Inspiration: “Dazed and confused? There’s still time to change the road you’re on!”

“Dazed and confused? There’s still time to change the road you’re on!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I’m over in Dublin, Ireland, and spent the day yesterday visiting the town where the ancestors on my mom’s side are from. The result is that I’ve had little time to prepare today’s quote. On occasion – and in […]

Daily Inspiration: “Success is the inevitable result of persistence”

“Success is the inevitable result of persistence” – Futurist Jim Carroll Persistence is the art of making repeated mistakes until you get it right – and it’s a critical pathway to innovation and success. Don’t give up. Abandoning your effort is never a great idea! After all, James Dyson went through 5,126 prototypes over 15 […]

Daily Inspiration: “In a world of lemmings, be the unicorn!”

“In a world of lemmings, be the unicorn!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I’ve been cracking up since I came across this video – and I must be driving my wife mad with my constant giggles. And here’s the thing – leadership motivation need not be boring. Nor should it be formulaic, routine, dull, predictable. Sometimes, we […]

Daily Inspiration: Innovation & Creativity – “Strapbooting: The ability to implement an instant bootstrapping solution at the spur of the idea!”

“Strapbooting: The ability to implement an instant bootstrapping solution at the spur of the idea!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Perhaps the most innovation-oriented movie scene of all time had to do with the moment that the team at Mission Control came together to come up with a quick solution to the fact that the carbon […]

Daily Inspiration: “When everyone is working together to stay the course, you’ve got a bigger problem than you think!”

“When everyone is working together to stay the course, you’ve got a bigger problem than you think!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I want to start 2024 by sharing a few snapshots about a recent offsite corporate leadership meeting held by the team at Legacy International. The organization finds itself in an interesting situation – markets […]

Daily Inspiration: 24 Strategies for 2024 #21 – “Take responsibility”

`”Take responsibility” – Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is running a series that began November 27, 2023, and will end on January 1, 2024 – ’24 Strategies for 2024.’ Rather than running a trend series for the upcoming year as he has previously, this series will examine a number of his personal beliefs on […]

Daily Inspiration: Innovation & Creativity – “Invest in your creative capital. You’ll see a return on your imagination!”

“Invest in your creative capital. You’ll see a return on your imagination!” – Futurist Jim Carroll The thing about the image is – it certainly caught your attention. That’s the whole point of creativity! I used a face-swap feature of an AI to generate an image of a punk rocker, backing it onto an image […]

Daily Inspiration: Innovation – “Don’t try to succeed too fast. Plan on failing too early.”

“Don’t try to succeed too fast. Plan on failing too early” – Futurist Jim Carroll During my travels last week, I saw what must be one of the greatest commercials of all time, at least to me. From Uber, it promotes its new ‘Uber Reserve‘ service, which allows you to do exactly what it suggests, […]

Daily Inspiration: Personal Attitude – “A negative attitude will never give you a positive result!”

“A negative attitude will never give you a positive result!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Turn it around. Don’t be negative. Be positive. Don’t say it’s too risky. Take the risk. Don’t say it won’t work. Make it work. Don’t say it’s impossible. Make it probable. Don’t say it can’t be done. Find a way to […]

Daily Inspiration: Innovation and Momentum – “Initiative is a lot like ketchup – it starts out slowly and then happens all at once!”

“Initiative is a lot like ketchup – it starts out slowly and then happens all at once!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Here’s a story about how, when I stared at a ketchup bottle around 2002, I turned into a $1/2 million revenue stream on the speaking circuit. I don’t make this stuff up. The story […]

Daily Inspiration: Trends & Opportunity – “Beyond every problem is an idea that fixes it.”

“Beyond every problem is an idea that fixes it.” – Futurist Jim Carroll You’ve probably heard the phrase “Every problem is an opportunity.” Beyond that quote lies the fact that someone can see an opportunity that others might not, allowing them to figure out how to fix the problem. Often this is because they’ve managed […]

Daily Inspiration: Innovation and Leadership – “The same old excuse will always get you the same old result.”

“The same old excuse will always get you the same old result.” – Futurist Jim Carroll Staying complacent? You know you are killing yourself with inaction. You’re stuck. Fading into irrelevancy! Dying from organizational sclerosis every single day. What are you going to do about it? You know it’s true, don’t you? Because you keep […]

Daily Inspiration: Innovation & Communications – “Problems can’t be solved if nobody has discovered that they exist!”

“Problems can’t be solved if nobody has discovered that they exist!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Everything is beta, it seems. If you use popular software programs, no doubt you’ve heard of the phrase, and have often sought access to the newest version in order to try the latest, greatest features. You might have friends who […]

Daily Inspiration: Insight & The Future – “It’s now how the circumstance of surprise impacts you. It’s the fact that you were surprised in the first place!”

“It’s not how the circumstance of surprise impacts you. It’s the fact that you were surprised in the first place!” – Futurist Jim Carroll “I didn’t see that coming!” “Wow, that came right out of left field!” “That caught me off guard!” “I wasn’t prepared for that!” “I was taken aback by what happened!” “I […]

Daily Inspiration: AI & Creativity – “With a little bit of courage and a whole lot of imagination, anything is possible.”

“With a little bit of courage and a whole lot of imagination, anything is possible.” – Timidus the Mouse Everyone has always told me I should write a kid’s book. So I decided to try to learn if I could do a kid’s movie using an AI. I learned I can – it’s the story […]

Daily Inspiration: Innovation and Learning – “Never stop chasing creativity!”

“Never stop chasing creativity!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I’m a bit of a weather nerd. I started chasing my knowledge of long-range weather patterns when we took up skiing as a family over twenty years ago; I wanted to understand the patterns, how forecasts are made, and the science behind them. I plunged headfirst into […]

Daily Inspiration: AI and innovation – “Use the tools”

“Use the tools” – Futurist Jim Carroll Try my AI! My mindset has always been ‘You can’t talk about tomorrow if you aren’t doing tomorrow.’ With that in mind, if you head over to my website – jimcarroll.com – you’ll find a little button at the top right, “Ask AI.“ (It will hopefully soon read […]