Innovate. Despite Uncertainty.
Because What You Do Right Now
Defines Your Future
INSIGHT, STRATEGIES, ACTION PLANS TO THRIVE
HERE’S THE MINDSET YOU NEED TO HAVE
You need proven strategies for ensuring that you are not a casualty in this great global economic reset which is unfolding at a blistering pace as nations struggle to contain Covid-19, and manage one of the most complex business and governance challenges of our lifetime. Watch this clip.
Leadership insight is critical – future trends, battle tested strategies, and action plans for aggressive innovation. I’ve got 3 virtual keynotes that provide you what you need, summarized in this clip.
Motivational, Strategic Guidance For An Era Of Uncertainty
“I’ve carefully studied the strategies that world class innovators pursue, the concepts that drive them, and the actions they take to become a success in this complex new world.
The concepts below are the attributes that drive their success and guides their actions.”
“NEVER DOUBT FOR A MOMENT THE POTENTIAL BENEFIT OF INITIATIVE!”
Going back to ‘where we were’ just isn’t going to happen. Many real leaders are realizing that very quickly and are taking the initiative to define their future by going out and building new ones. If you want to move your leadership forward, you will have to embrace the fact that this online world is your world too. Insight into trends and what the future may hold doesn’t need to be done in person, the online world can be just as effective in helping to take the initiative to get moving!
“THE GLOBAL PANDEMIC HAS CREATED A WAR BETWEEN FAST MOVING EVENTS AND PREVIOUSLY SLOW MOVING ORGANIZATIONS!”
Faster innovation, disruption and industry transformation – trends that have accelerated because organizations are being forced into the future, whether they like it or not.
It’s funny what happens when your survival depends on it!
“ARE YOU STUCK IN TODAY’S PANDEMIC-RUT? FIND THE SWITCH TO ACTIVATE YOUR TOMORROW!”
As we move into the next phase of this global crisis smart organizations will get out of their indecision funk and become aggressive with the deployment of smart technologies! Factory 4.0, Industrial Internet of Things, Cobots(cooperate robots) and much more!!
“YOUR WISHFUL THINKING THAT WE CAN JUST PRESS A MAGIC BUTTON TO REOPEN THE ECONOMY AND GO BACK TO NORMAL – IS EXACTLY THAT!”
We are living through the most disruptive, transformative, challenging economic time of our lifetime. Our old world is gone!
Accept that fact and you are ready to move on into this new world of unbelievable opportunity!
“YOU WON’T GET AHEAD BY BEING SMALL AND TIMID WHEN THE BIGGEST, BOLDEST CHALLENGES OF YOUR LIFETIME ARE OCCURRING ALL AROUND YOU!”
This is a time to think big and give it all you’ve got! The skills you deployed before all this will not be the same as what you will need going forward, customers will not come rushing back and the process you used to create things will not exist in the same form as before. To you things might be unrecognizable, but the opportunities are massive!
“HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US THAT IN AN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN, ONLY 10% OF ORGANIZATIONS BECOME BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMERS. WILL YOU JOIN US?”
60% will muddle their way through, 30% won’t make it, 10% will seize the opportunity of uncertainty and turn it into a path forward.
Who do you choose to be?
Driven by relentless determination to reinvent (yet again!) I don’t mind saying that I’m already in the 10%.
Are you?
“VOLATILITY, UNCERTAINTY, COMPLEXITY, AMBIGUITY. THIS IS YOUR REALITY. DEAL WITH IT. KEEP INNOVATING!”
V – volatility – mass rate of change
U – uncertainty – nothing will ever by the same
C – complexity – decision factors x 10!
A – ambiguity – lack of clarity
These are the leadership attributes that should define you today.
FAILING AT THE FUTURE: 10 REASONS WHY SOME COMPANIES WILL MISS OUT ON THE ECONOMIC UPTURN!
Futurist Jim Carroll: “Over time I have seen and have worked with two different types of organizations and leaders. I’ve seen innovation failures – companies that are stuck in their economic rut and unable to figure out what to do next. In other cases I’ve encountered some real pioneers and fast-movers. They are the innovation leaders – they go forward by innovating, changing and adapting.
So what’s holding the innovation laggards back? I think there are several common attributes:
- Fear of the unknown
- Inertia is easy
- It’s easy to avoid tough decisions
- An unwillingness to confront the truth
- A short term focus
- A culture that is risk adverse
- Paralyzed by the fear of failure
- Failure to adapt at fast markets
- A refusal or unwillingness to adapt to new methodologies and ideas
- A loss of confidence
VIDEOS ON ECONOMIC RECOVERY
ACTION PLANS TO KILL YOUR AGGRESSIVE INDECISION
The global pandemic of 2020 has changed every assumption you have made about the future. You need to change your leadership style now.
- Stop waiting. Start doing.
- Kill indecision. It’s sclerotic.
- Don’t seek certainty. It’s gone.
- Take on more risk. Volatility demands it.
- Motivate your team. They’re worried.
- Pursue bold ideas. Because the time is now.
- Speed up. Because it’s just faster.
- Rethink your future. It’s different (obviously).
- Be bold. History doesn’t reward the timid.
- Be a fast leader, not a slow follower.
POSTS ABOUT THE RECOVERY
Leadership and Volatility: It’s What You Do Right Now That Matters
History teaches us that those who move forward, fast, during periods of relentless uncertainty, are those who
Scary News Headlines?
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Daily Inspiration: “If you are letting all this recession talk defer your plans for growth, you’re doing it all wrong!”
"If you are letting all this recession talk defer your plans for growth, you're doing it all wrong!" - Futurist Jim
Video: The Reality of Disruption!
Here's a clip from a keynote in which I talk to the reality of the change that every organization faces
Daily Inspiration: “Denial of your reality is not going to lead you to a better outcome!”
"Denial of your reality is not going to lead you to a better outcome!" - Futurist Jim CarrollRead this: "RIM
Video Playlist: Innovating Through Uncertainty
It's what you decide to do that matters
Innovating in a Recession – When Do YOU Think There Will be an Economic Recovery?
It's 2011. Futurist Jim Carroll has 2,000 clients of @TRowePrice in a room, and he's talking about economic downturns
Video: “Tell me a story about the doomiest gloomiest group you’ve ever seen!”
Someone asked. So I hit the studio and filmed a
Where’s the growth? Rethinking long term opportunity in the context of volatility!
I wrote this PDF report late in 2008 after the global economic meltdown as the great 2008-09 recession was settling
Daily Inspiration: “Your goal today should be to know more than you knew yesterday about the things you were not aware of the day before that!”
"Your goal today should be to know more than you knew yesterday about the things you were not aware of the day before
Daily Inspiration: “Stop recessionating. Start growthinating!”
"Stop recessionating. Start growthinating!" - Futurist Jim CarrollSince this is my Daily Inspiration on my
Daily Inspiration: “The future won’t wait for your panic to subside!”
"The future won't wait for your panic to subside!" - Futurist Jim CarrollHey, how about that stock
Post-Covid Leadership : Aligning to the New Era of Volatility
The pandemic has changed every business assumption. Your ability to lead your team through the new volatility defines
Custom Leadership Video Production – “World Class Innovators” & Reinventing Your Thought Leadership Process!
Are you a CEO, HR executive or strategy expert that needs to bring your team up to date with the big issues in your
KEYNOTE: Bridging the Acceleration Gap Achieving Growth By Aligning to The Post-Pandemic Future
KEYNOTE: Bridging the Acceleration Gap: Achieving Growth By Aligning to The Post-Pandemic Future The global pandemic
Post-Pandemic Leadership – What’s Your Plan?
Relentless volatility. Ongoing uncertainty. Information ambiguity. Unreliability. A lack of clarity. Ongoing
Video: Your Post Covid Reality – The Trends that Define Your Future!
The ultimate impact of Covid-19 on your future? Beyond the fact that we will be living in a somewhat surreal and
Notable Keynotes: Lessons in Leadership for our Post Pandemic Recovery – My Keynote for @WSJ The Wall Street Journal
A clip for my Notable Keynotes - Lessons in Leadership For Our Eventual Post-Pandemic Recovery series - about the time
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