Principle #6 in Jim Carroll’s Mastering Innovation sequence.
“World class innovators check their speed and focus on corporate agility” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is running his Daily Inspiration series for 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. You would think that I’m somewhat focused on the issue of speed as a core metric of success. I come by it honestly. After all, several of my books play into the theme - The Future Belongs to Those Who Are Fast being one of them. (Another one carries the theme in the subtitle: Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast.) And yet, this isn’t just a simple idea to latch onto to write a few books. At the time I was compiling my list of ‘world-class innovators’ during the global economic recession of 2008-09,…