Jim Carroll Blog | Futurist, Trends & Innovation Keynote Speaker
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Jim Caroll is one of the world's leading international futurists, trends and innovation experts, with clients such as NASA, The GAP and the PGA.
Jim Carroll Blog | Futurist, Trends & Innovation Keynote Speaker
4d ago
“Committees are an infrastructure designed to race you to the bottom of opportunity!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Committees kill ideas. Committees kill all initiative. Committees kill the idea of innovation. Committees are the destroyer of all things. Did I mention I think committees are a bad idea? “Let me check with the committee.” “We’ve got ..read more
Jim Carroll Blog | Futurist, Trends & Innovation Keynote Speaker
4d ago
“Take pride in your losses because they teach you about your wins!” – Futurist Jim Carroll People hide from their failure. They shouldn’t. Because often, it’s the only way to get to success. Your wins are informed by your losses. Your success is defined by your failure. Moving forward always comes after a few steps ..read more
Jim Carroll Blog | Futurist, Trends & Innovation Keynote Speaker
4d ago
“The soul of this new machine is moving faster than your imagination!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Back when I began my computer voyage, I read the book “Soul of a New Machine,” described by ChatGPT this way: Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, published in 1981, is a non-fiction book that explores the ..read more
Jim Carroll Blog | Futurist, Trends & Innovation Keynote Speaker
4d ago
“‘Your time is gonna’ come’ need not be your epitaph!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Innovate or die. 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 ..read more
Jim Carroll Blog | Futurist, Trends & Innovation Keynote Speaker
4d ago
“Reality always trumps wishful thinking!” – Futurist Jim Carroll There’s a reality gap. A gap between an understanding of how industries are changing, and how people hope it will change. A gap between what it takes to solve deep, complex issues, and how people think they can be solved. A gap between the skills needed ..read more
Jim Carroll Blog | Futurist, Trends & Innovation Keynote Speaker
1w ago
“Do the hard things” – Futurist Jim Carroll How many times do you say to yourself, “I’ll do the easy things first!” And then you just keep doing the easy things over and over again, always avoiding the hard stuff. And you never make any progress – because at some point or other, you have ..read more
Jim Carroll Blog | Futurist, Trends & Innovation Keynote Speaker
1w ago
“If you keep chasing motivation instead of chasing trends, you’re doing tomorrow all wrong!” – Futurist Jim Carroll One of the most interesting – and perhaps one of the most common – situations in my line of work is when you get contacted by a potential client for a detailed talk on the trends that ..read more
Jim Carroll Blog | Futurist, Trends & Innovation Keynote Speaker
1w ago
“Prove them wrong!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Your life is often defined by a series of barriers established by someone other than yourself. The barriers are established by them to tell you that you can’t accomplish something – prove them wrong! That you don’t have the skills. Prove them wrong! That your idea won’t work ..read more
Jim Carroll Blog | Futurist, Trends & Innovation Keynote Speaker
2w ago
“Aligning to tomorrow? You’ll succeed when you get beyond a series of awful decisions driven by the delusion of denial!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Most people believe that they can keep doing tomorrow what they are doing today, even when what they are doing today is not working. They are wrong. And, in many cases ..read more
Jim Carroll Blog | Futurist, Trends & Innovation Keynote Speaker
2w ago
“Any idea worth growing should always be planted!” – Futurist Jim Carroll From small ideas, big things can grow! That’s what I was thinking about yesterday as I spent time with my long-time friend Marc Jeftovic. He’s the CEO of easyDNS, a tech company that, well, helps you manage your DNS (or domain name service ..read more