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Keynote: AgFirst Farm Credit Bank, Orlando, Florida – Agriculture 2025 and the Future of the World’s Oldest Profession

This organization is involved in agricultural lending in the eastern US, and this particular event...

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Video: Speed Things Up – You Need to Reinvent Your Products, Continuously!

Product lifecycles as a concept are dead. Nothing lasts forever. What you sell today will be...

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Daily Inspiration: “Try as you might, you can’t mask your mistakes and hide your failures forever!”

“Try as you might, you can’t mask your mistakes and hide your failures forever!” - Futurist...

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Daily Inspiration: “It’s your future. Take it into your own hands!”

“It’s your future. Take it into your own hands!” - Futurist Jim CarrollIt’s your...

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Daily Inspiration: “When you believe in yourself, your reality will one day exceed the reach of your dreams!”

“When you believe in yourself, your reality will one day exceed the reach of your dreams!” -...

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Video: Kids These Days – They Inhale Change!

A brief clip I ran with my '19 Trends for 2019' series ... which takes a look at a grab bag of the...

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Daily Inspiration: “Prioritize your courage over fear, action over inaction, reality over illusions…”

“Prioritize your courage over fear, action over inaction, reality over illusions, mutual respect...

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Daily Inspiration: “Your future forecast? Sunny with an excellent chance for opportunity!”

“Your future forecast? Sunny with an excellent chance for opportunity!” - Futurist Jim...

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Daily Inspiration: “Your comfort zone will quickly become uncomfortable if you don’t align to faster change!”

“Your comfort zone will quickly become uncomfortable if you don’t align to faster change!” -...

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#MOTOFAIL: Why Do Smart Companies Do Really Stupid Things?

Here's a clip for you to watch; it's from an event I spoke at a few weeks ago in San Diego. It...

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Daily Inspiration: “Every day begins just like a par-3 over water. Full of opportunity with potential for disaster!”

“Every day begins just like a par-3 over water. Full of opportunity with potential for disaster!...

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Daily Inspiration: “Legacy is death! But disruption? It’s rebirth!”

“Legacy is death! But disruption? It's rebirth!" - Futurist Jim CarrollWhat worked for...

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Daily Inspiration: “…a quick flash of inspiration that comes at you like a bolt out of the blue!”

“Sometimes all it takes is a quick flash of inspiration that comes at you like a bolt out of the...

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Video : “10 Great Words” – Seeking Inspiration to Do the Great Things You Need to Do!

Here's a clip to get you thinking - my closing comments from my keynote for the PGA of America. In...

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Daily Inspiration: “It’s always your choice as to whether the best is yet to come!”

“It’s always your choice as to whether the best is yet to come!” - #Futurist Jim...

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Keynote: Career Education Colleges & Universites, New Orleans, LA – The Future of Education

The theme of the annual convention for this group of private colleges and univerities was...

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Daily Inspiration: “Doing the right thing when it’s easy is easy – it’s doing the right thing when it’s tough that is tough!”

“Doing the right thing when it’s easy is easy - it’s doing the right thing when it’s tough...

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Daily Inspiration: “The era of oil lasted for about 150 years – it then came to an abrupt and dramatic end”

“One day we’ll look back and realize that the era of oil lasted for about 150 years - and that...

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Daily Inspiration: “….the only generation, in the entire history of mankind, who will have ever met the punch card!”

“Our attitude towards change is defined by the fact that we are the only generation, in the...

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A Little Bit of Insight

I've been blogging since 2002, and over the last 17 years, I've pulled into my site A LOT of...

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Daily Inspiration: “Inaction is deadly: at this very moment, someone is busy working to destroy your business model!”

“Inaction is deadly: at this very moment, someone is busy working to destroy your business...

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Daily Inspiration: “Only fools suffer from the sin of complacency!” –

“Only fools suffer from the sin of complacency!” - #Futurist Jim CarrollWhen the Utah...

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Daily Inspiration: “#BeTheNorth – The world needs more Canada!”

“#BeTheNorth - The world needs more Canada!” - #Futurist Jim CarrollIt’s a fun...

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Video: Energy is Changing Faster Than You Think!

I've been doing a tremendous number of energy conferences over the last few years - and one reason...

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Daily Inspiration: “Spatial is the new intelligence: a future guided by data, mapping and insight in 3 dimensions!”

“Spatial is the new intelligence: a future guided by data, mapping and insight in 3...

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Daily Inspiration: “It’s never too late for you to be who you could have been!”

“It’s never too late for you to be who you could have been!” - #Futurist Jim...

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Timing is Everything: Jim Carroll’s 5 Rules on Aligning to the Future!

Here's a big issue to wrap your head around - increasingly, your opportunity for future success...

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Daily Inspiration: “Science is moving so fast, we might one day soon be able to architect a ‘lighter-than-air’ jet!”

“Science is moving so fast, we might one day soon be able to architect a ‘lighter-than-air’...

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Daily Inspiration: “If your belief system is based upon the unbelievable, why do you keep complaining when it goes wrong?”

“If your belief system is based upon the unbelievable, why do you keep complaining when it goes...

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Daily Inspiration: “What part of ‘it’s inevitable’ do you not understand?”

“What part of ‘it’s inevitable’ do you not understand?” - #Futurist Jim...

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Daily Inspiration: “They’re not playing video games …. they’re on the path to virtualization of work!”

“They’re not playing video games: they’re building the critical skills that will redefine our...

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Why don’t you know what you should know? Do you actually know what you don’t know? 5 Questions to Assess Your Insight!

You should know what you don't know!Because if you don't, you won't know!With that idea...

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Daily Inspiration: “Yesterday’s success story is already out of date. You need to rewrite it ….”

“Yesterday’s success story is already out of date. You need to rewrite it with a new beginning...

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Video: Are You Thinking too Small When the Scope of the Future is WAY Bigger Than You Think? Probably!

A video clip from my keynote yesterday for several hundred educators and executives for the Career...

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Daily Inspiration: “Have you ever noticed that disappointment always seems to be an equal opportunity partner to success?”

“Have you ever noticed that disappointment always seems to be an equal opportunity partner to...

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Daily Inspiration: “You need to deliver knowledge … that doesn’t exist .. and do it yesterday!”

“You need to deliver knowledge that you aren’t yet aware of, for jobs that don’t yet exist,...

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Daily Inspiration: “Never underestimate the ability of those around you to try to destroy your optimism!”

“Never underestimate the ability of those around you to try to destroy your optimism!” -...

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Daily Inspiration: “The problem with an assumption is that it usually becomes an excuse for inaction!”

“The problem with an assumption is that it usually becomes an excuse for inaction!” -#Futurist...

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Daily Inspiration: “A figment of your imagination? It’s already someone else’s disruptive reality!”

“A figment of your imagination? It’s already someone else’s disruptive reality!” Futurist...

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The Future of Transit: “It’s Not Your Grandad’s City Bus System Anymore!”

In 1964, at the age of 5, I started going to kindergarten in Byron, a subdivision of London,...

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THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO ARE FAST features the best of the insight from Jim Carroll’s blog, in which he
covers issues related to creativity, innovation and future trends.

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