(*) "The world doesn't need many more folks with a Masters of Business Administration -- it needs a lot more with a Masters in Business Imagination!" Jim Carroll, imagining what it would be like if we could earn our MBI
Here's a bit of background about Jim
- a leading international futurist, trends & innovation expert, recently covered in The Advertiser, Credit Suisse's Bulletin, Dubai's Capital Magazine ...
- The Walt Disney Corporation needed to inspire senior staff on the topics of innovation and creativity: and brought in Jim Carroll
- Business Week : "Jim is one of four leading sources for insight on innovation and creativity"
- a featured expert on the prime time CNBC series, "The Business of Innovation," hosted by Maria Bartiromo
- Credit Suisse profiles Jim Carroll in their global customer publication Bulletin: "unique insight on growth"
- Example keynote: 7 Things You Need to Do Right Now: Aligning The Fast Future to Your Current Strategy
- a strategic thinker and "thought "leader" - deep insight into trends, the future, creativity, innovation, with a global client base that includes Nestle, Motorola, American Society for Quality, Caterpillar, SAP, Verizon, the BBC, Microsoft, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Property and Casualty Insurance Association of America, and the Swiss Innovation Forum and many more -- see the client list
- an author, columnist, media commentator, consultant, with a focus on linking future trends to innovation and creativity, provides high energy keynotes for audiences of 3,000, or intimate, detailed customized strategic planning insight for CEO / board / senior management meetings
- hundreds of thousands have shared his insight with highly energized presentations in Zurich, New York, Vancouver, Cayman Islands, Palm Springs, London, Los Angeles, Budapest, Miami, Toronto, Costa Rica, San Francisco, Nassau and Stockholm,
- Jim is the author of Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast, and What I Learned From Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward Thinking Innovation
- Sample topic: Game Changers: The 8 Big Trends That Will Rock Your World
- an 18 year track record in providing direct, independent guidance to a huge, diverse client base, combined with a previous professional financial background, including 12 years with the world's largest professional services firm
- he has researched key innovation success factors for dozens of industries, associations, professions, companies, individuals
- has provided industry specific keynotes and strategic planning sessions for life sciences, health care, insurance, automotive, manufacturing, agriculture, technology, education, government, consumer products, retail, banking, and countless other industries
- he has provided his insight in dozens of books, in over 600 articles, and in over 3,000 interviews on radio, television and in print, with media exposure and interviews with ABC News, BusinessWeek, INC, Fast Company, CNBC, Texas Meetings and Events, the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), American Way, The Age (Sydney, Australia), CAPITAL Magazine (Dubai/United Arab Emirates) CEO Magazine Hungary, Association LEADERSHIP, the National Post and PROFIT, to name but a few
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Brand confusion in the global world
One fascinating aspect of the new world in which we find ourselves is that some companies have found that globalization has meant some very unique "brand management" challenges, as their brand or company names runs up against long-standing brand or companies from elsewhere in the world.
I've got the same interesting challenge, but from a very different perspective.
The "other Jim Carroll" is an extremely well known poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of the Basketball Diaries (which became a Hollywood movie, with Jim Carroll played by Leonardo DiCaprio of Titanic fame), and leader of the 80's punk group, The Jim Carroll Band (best known for the hit, "Those are People Who Died.")
There are many people on the Web who are looking for that Jim Carroll - he has an enormous global popularity, as seen by his Wikipedia entry.
I'm often told stories by people as to how they've found him when they are looking for me. Most often, this has been after a keynote somewhere or other; they've heard the name Jim Carroll and go off and do a Google search.
We both show up, of course.
When they do their search, end up finding him, and kind of wonder about the poet aspect.....that's why I've long had this page that links to the "other Jim Carroll," in order to ease the brand confusion.
It certainly makes for interesting conversations!
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Jim Carroll - author, poet, rocker...
Please note -- I am not Jim Carroll, author, poet, rocker singer -- the fellow best known as author of The Basketball Diaries .
That's him on the right...... and if you are looking for him, try his Web site here .
I do own many of his albums, have seen the movie, and have read many of his books -- and yes, I'm a fan.
Jim does a lot of spoken word on campuses today. He tells a powerful story concerning his upbringing, drugs, and the challenges of addiction. He's a good person, and has a huge number of worldwide fans. I hope to meet him one day.
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