Principle #2 in Jim Carroll’s Mastering Innovation sequence.
“World class innovators possess a relentless focus on growth”- Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is running his Daily Inspiration series for the weeks of March 11/18 on the theme of “What is it that World Class Innovators Do That Others Don’t Do?” The leadership ideas are based on an original keynote he gave early in 2009 after a client asked him to identify these issues. He developed this carefully curated list based on 15 years of observations of how his global clients responded to fast-paced change. It seems intuitive to know that every organization focuses on growth - after all, what’s the point if not otherwise? But what world-class innovators do is stay focused on that growth despite any volatility or negativity. That’s what differentiates them, and it’s a powerful lesson that I learned while watching what organizations did during the economic meltdown of 2008 and previously, with the downturn of 2001-02. I used this fact in the opening to many of my talks that would unfold in the years that followed: “I’ve had a…