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title: "Manure, Penguins and Your Future! Linking Really Weird Trends into Insight for the Era of Acceleration!"
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# Manure, Penguins and Your Future! Linking Really Weird Trends into Insight for the Era of Acceleration!

Find your penguins!

Grok manure managers!

What’s this all about? It goes way back to an article I wrote in my column in Profit, and even earlier than that, in my book, Survving the Information Age.

https://jimcarroll.com/2012/01/the-future-of-agriculture-i-found-the-future-in-manure/

Read the [article “I found the future in manure!](https://jimcarroll.com/2012/01/the-future-of-agriculture-i-found-the-future-in-manure/)”

Quite simply, our complex future means that you’ll never ever, ever have all the skills you need. Your success will simply come from getting the right skills, at the right time, for the right purpose.

Just-in-time skills access and deployment, as it were. If you don’t have it, you don’t have what it takes.

![](/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/RightSkillsRightTime.jpg)