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JIM’S INSIGHTS

Futurist Jim Carroll has quickly become recognized as your ‘go-to source’ for effective insight on what comes next, the strategies that you consider, and the leadership path you need to follow.

YOUR POST-COVID FUTURE

What comes next, and what should you do about it? Explore these topic pages for detailed insight on what YOU need to be doing NEXT.

25 years on stage with global clients like Disney, NASA, and the World Bank, Jim Carroll excels at delivering customized insight, high-energy presentations, with full interactivity, onstage or from a state-of-the-art broadcast studio.

Trends: Your Post Covid Future

A Recession? Disruptors Choose Not to Participate – Here’s Why!

Here’s a short clip from my keynote in London, UK last week – and my story about what goes wrong if you fall prey to a mindset of negativity driven by economic gloom. The story in the video is key to my ‘innovate for the future despite uncertainty’ message – it’s early 2009, and the global […]

Daily Inspiration: “Your goal today should be to know more than you knew yesterday about the things you were not aware of the day before that!”

“Your goal today should be to know more than you knew yesterday about the things you were not aware of the day before that!” – Futurist Jim Carroll You need new knowledge, skills, insight, and capabilities each and every day to get through our new complex economy – you need organizational dexterity. Our world has […]

Achieving Growth During Recessionary Times: History Teaches Us That What You Do Right Now Really Matters!

I’ve been booked by many global organizations for close to 30 years, speaking at their leadership events, corporate retreats, high-performance executive sessions, customer events, and more. Many of my bookings come through my many speaker bureau partners – I’m represented and booked by many of the same agencies who book folks like by the same […]

Virtual Keynote Clip: How Has the Future Changed with the Pandemic?

A clip from a virtual keynote I gave in June ’22, with an overview of how the pandemic has accelerated the world of business, changed consumer behavior, and drove forward the pace of change from a variety of trends. Years from now, we will look back and realize that many industries, technologies, concepts, and disruptive […]

An Economy in Recession? This is WHEN the Real Innovators Start to Win! What’s Your Plan?

New ideas, transformative innovations, and bold thinking don’t die with recessionary times – in fact, a downturn is often the starting point for big ideas. Companies such as Burger King, Microsoft, CNN, and FedEx all started up during recessions. Given the new economic volatility, shrieking stock market headlines, and the reappearance of a sense of dread […]

Post-Covid Leadership : Aligning to the New Era of Volatility

The pandemic has changed every business assumption. Your ability to lead your team through the new volatility defines your future success. The ultimate impact of Covid-19 on your future? Beyond the fact that we will be living in a somewhat surreal and unusual future, another fact remains – every organization is entering a new future […]

Reality: When there’s volatility, there’s always opportunity!

2022 got you down? At this very moment, while volatility rages, there are people busy putting in place the foundation for their massive growth opportunities in the years to come. We’ve been here before. Here I am on stage in 2009 – the global economic meltdown has just happened – and I’m outlining how global CEOs […]

The Future Belonged To Those Who Were Fast. It’s Now Faster!

The business world changed with Covid. Here’s what we saw: 10 years of change in 6 months Major trends accelerated Organizations learned something new about speed Agility and flexibility became a necessity Business models shifted faster An attitude that ‘it can’t be done’ was shattered by necessity Decision making paralysis was obliterated The slow structure […]

An Interview on VUCA – volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity!

VUCA – volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity! That’s your big reality. Here’s why you need to think about how you manage complexity – with a look back at a Q&A I did with a company that specializes in managing complexity. Beneath the surface of normalcy lies a hidden layer of complexity. A few years back, I was […]

A Forward Thinking Organization: Do You Measure Up?

The world was fast before Covid – that’s why my catchphrase, and the title of one of my books, is “the future belongs to those who are fast!” And yet, post-pandemic, it’s even faster, and will only continue to accelerate. That’s why I’ve been talking about ‘the acceleration gap‘ – it’s big and getting bigger. […]

Accelerating the Acceleration Gap: The Ultimate Impact of Our Post-Pandemic World

I hesitate to use the phrase ‘post-pandemic’ because we really don’t know when that actual trend might unfold … but with that in mind, how has the business world changed as a result of the last 2 years? What can we expect on ‘the other side?’ In a recent in-person keynote for the Packaging Machinery […]

The Leadership Lessons of the Pandemic – We Are Now Forever Defined By Resilience, Speed, Adaptability, Agility!

Your business will never be the same! Not your business model, structure, skills base, or any assumptions about your future. Everything has forever changed, and if you don’t study the powerful lessons that leaders have adapted, you’ll fall behind. Check this clip from a recent keynote I gave for a senior leadership meeting of Siemens […]