Insight Index

JIM’S INSIGHTS

COVID-19 has transformed business forever.
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.

INNOVATION INSIGHTS

If you keeping doing the same old thing, you’ll
end up with the same old thing!

Staying Complacent? You Know You Are Killing Yourself with Inaction. What Are You Going To Do About It?

You’re stuck. Fading into irrelevancy. Dying from organizational sclerosis every single day. Killing yourself with inaction. You know it’s true, don’t you! Because you keep on making the same old excuses, each and every day, that validate your belief that you don’t need to change. As that famous philosopher once said: LOL. The joke will be […]

“Ask a Futurist” – What Trends Are you Watching?

What trends are worth watching as we start to enter an eventual weird, post-Covid economy? How do you distinguish real trends from fads? What really matters? I took these questions on in my “Ask a Futurist” video today. I covered a lot of stuff – fad trends like NFT (nonfungible tokens), Clubhouse and meme-investing which […]

Post-Pandemic Leadership – What’s Your Plan?

Relentless volatility. Ongoing uncertainty. Information ambiguity. Unreliability. A lack of clarity. Ongoing vulnerability. Welcome to your new future. What’s your plan? My ongoing research, trends tracking and client discussions tell me that we are faced with a future in which you now need to move at lightning speed, without really knowing what might come next. […]

Video: Your Post Covid Reality – The Trends that Define Your Future!

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 in which a new era of massive acceleration defines everything you will do. I hit the virtual broadcast studio in my […]

Start Your Day Today with Some Consistent Failure In Your Plan! It’s the Only Way You Will Succeed!

Because if you don’t fail, you aren’t learning! Here’s some inspiration to get you going. I seem to write about beneficial failure a lot in my Daily Inspiration posts!

The Wizard of Oz, The Pandemic of 2020, and Disruptive Innovation: Be Like Dorothy!

Are you doing marginal things when you could be doing so much better? Dedicated to my wonderful sister Dorothy, who we lost to pancreatic cancer just over two years ago. Don’t live a monochromatic life – live in technicolor!

Video: “Go Ahead: Admit It – You’re Stuck, Indecisive, and Not Sure What Do Do!”

So when do you innovate? Right now! For some reason, my sound configuration was off – but still a good story.

Daily Inspiration: “You are best defined by the barriers you overcome, not by the failure they might impose on you!”

“You are best defined by the barriers you overcome, not by the failure they might impose on you!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Who would have thought 6 months ago that I’d have a full fledged city skyline view from my basement – but here we are! The home studio is just cooking along. Failure teaches […]

Moving Forward : Discovering Opportunity in this era of Volatility and Uncertainty!

Are you thinking about your eventual post-pandemic future, and how you will align yourself to the opportunities that are unfolding right now? Or are you stuck in the here and now, unable and unwilling to comprehend what you need to do to align to ‘what comes next?’ This post will provide you some motivational guidance […]

Revisiting Your Disruptive Future : Are You Ready for Your Next 5 Years?

I returned to my virtual broadcast studio yesterday, and filmed a video as to this fact – while you’ve been busy managing your pandemic reality, the future has still continued it’s relentless, disruptive march. You need to make sure you are still aligned to what comes next!

Daily Inspiration: “If it doesn’t work? Blow it up. Do it again. Repeat!”

“If it doesn’t work? Blow it up. Do it again. Repeat!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I filmed a bit the other day for a story as to how disruptive trends are coming back onto the global leadership radar – and what organizations need to do about it. I had a great stage set, but I wasn’t happy with […]

“Someone once asked how I prepare for my future. Ready? Pay attention. Try new stuff. That’s it!”

“Someone once asked how I prepare for my future. Ready? Pay attention. Try new stuff. That’s it!” – Futurist Jim Carroll This is a screen clip from a little video I did yesterday which goes through the steps I follow to create a live video in the virtual studio. You’ll only develop new skills if you try new things. You’ll […]