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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.

Leadership and Volatility: It’s What You Do Right Now That Matters

History teaches us that those who move forward, fast, during periods of relentless uncertainty, are those who win. Futurist Jim Carroll on stage in London, England, with a powerful on leadership and volatility.

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Daily Inspiration: “If you spend your time waiting to see when something might happen, you probably won’t be ready for it when it actually happens!”

“If you spend your time waiting to see when something might happen, you probably won’t be ready for it when it actually happens!” – Futurist Jim Carroll The blog post How much time of an average life is spent waiting? features some pretty depressing statistics: “According to a Timex survey, Americans wait: on average of 20 […]

Daily Inspiration: “A strategy based on ‘FOMO’ is not a strategy. It’s lunacy!”

“A strategy based on ‘FOMO’ is not a strategy. It’s lunacy” – Futurist Jim Carroll The near-term future with A.I. is an unholy mess. The long term doesn’t look much better really, and it’s safe to say that going forward, chat-based artificial intelligence is the new crypto! There is so much hype around this fast-moving […]

Daily Inspiration: “Never look back – the road is forward.”

“Never look back – the road is forward. If you spend too much time reflecting on what’s been done, you’re not spending enough time on what could be done.” – Futurist Jim Carroll Far too many people arrive in the future without ever knowing how they got there. That’s because they’ve been too busy looking back! Part […]

Daily Inspiration: “If you are letting all this recession talk defer your plans for growth, you’re doing it all wrong!”

“If you are letting all this recession talk defer your plans for growth, you’re doing it all wrong!” – Futurist Jim Carroll History has taught us that those who win during periods of economic uncertainty are those who double down on strategies for growth, accelerate R&D, focus their sales efforts on top customers, and maintain […]

KEYNOTE: The Acceleration of Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of the Robots – Promise and Peril in the Next Technological Transformation

The level of interest in my AI keynote presentation is nothing less than STAGGERING. I’ve never seen the world so captivated by a technology, so enamored by its opportunities, but also so worried about its potential impact. Organizations and associations are struggling to understand – what do we do now? I’m hitting a few groups […]

Video: The Reality of Disruption!

Here’s a clip from a keynote in which I talk to the reality of the change that every organization faces today: It’s all right there in the video clip – directly from my keynote: The impact of disruption is that everything you do forever changes – the products you develop, the services you deliver, the […]

Daily Inspiration: “Denial of your reality is not going to lead you to a better outcome!”

“Denial of your reality is not going to lead you to a better outcome!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Read this: “RIM continues to have strong technology, unique service capabilities and a large installed base of customers, and we are more determined than ever to capitalize on our strengths to overcome the recent execution challenges surrounding […]

Daily Inspiration: “If only the paranoid survive, it’s also true that it’s the chameleons who will thrive!”

“If only the paranoid survive, it’s also true that it’s the chameleons who will thrive!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Here’s a story about innovation and adaptability. To be a chameleon – to change with the circumstances, adapt, evolve, and reinvent. Back in 2008, Toshiba Australia invited me to open their annual technology conference in Sydney […]

Leadership: Why Acceleration is the Key to 2023!

I’ve been doing some cleanup of things and realized that this video I filmed out in San Francisco years ago still has an important message. I’m finding that it’s the CEOs of organizations that this message resonates with – they’re looking for detailed insight into their issues that can be delivered at an offsite event. […]

10 Great Strategies for 2023 – What are the CEOs Thinking About?

I just finished the final post in my series, “23 Trends for 2023.” As I write in the intro: The future is a vast and complex issue, and one that covers so many potential topics. Since I speak in virtually every industry, from agriculture to healthcare, banking to technology, transportation to energy, it’s always been […]

23 Trends for 2023: #10 Revisiting Strategic Agility

We need to plan faster with bigger goals in mind – but we’ve been distracted. After all, we’ve been in triage mode with our organization in dealing with the pandemic, supply chain challenges, a volatile economy, and workforce issues. That’s why trend #10 of my “23 Trends for 2023” has to do with the idea of […]

23 Trends for 2023: #9 Entrenched Workback Pushback

Most companies are on a path trying to get key employees back to the office. Return to work is the beating drum. The problem is that many of those key employees – highly skilled, in huge demand – have tasted freedom, and don’t want to go back. And in the context of trend #8 – […]

23 Trends for 2023: #7 – Crazy ideas go mainstream

The pace of new ideas, innovations, concepts, scientific discoveries, and product breakthroughs is occurring at such a pace that the need to align to a world of tomorrow is even more necessary today. Because trend #7 of my “23 Trends for 2023” is “Crazy Ideas Go Mainstream.” It’s your job to ingest these crazy ideas, […]

23 Trends for 2023: Trend #3 – Inevitable Inevitability!

Companies and people fight the future. Inevitability, they come to accept the inevitability of it all! And in 2023, they are going to do more of that! That’s Trend #3 of my ‘23 Trends for 2023!’ The Backstory We live in disruptive times. The Internet, technology, and digitization of industries have led to massive change. […]

23 Trends for 2023: Trend #1 – “Techno-skepticism” and Retiming The Future

It hasn’t been a great year for tech. Things went too far. And so the tech collapse in 2022 was entirely predictable. This leads to my first trend to watch in 2023: “techno-skepticism.” I believe this will be THE defining trend of 2023 (other than geopolitics and war which are beyond my scope) What is it? The […]

Daily Inspiration: “Disruptive trends never wait for those who are structured for slow in a world of fast!”

“Disruptive trends never wait for those who are structured for slow in a world of fast!” – Futurist Jim Carroll (Re the photo – you NEVER check your watch when you are up on stage, but I was making a point to the audience that things are moving fast, and you need to move fast!) […]

Understanding Hubris: What Drives CEO Arrogance – and Why Does it Never End Well?

Let’s talk about hubris and arrogance. It kills. And it happens, a lot. And now, it happens faster. You can watch CEO arrogance happen live, in real-time – you are probably doing that right now. Think about it – in the olden days, like, 10-20 years ago, it took years, if not decades, to watch […]

Innovating in a Recession – When Do YOU Think There Will be an Economic Recovery?

It’s 2011. Futurist Jim Carroll has 2,000 clients of @TRowePrice in a room, and he’s talking about economic downturns & mindset – and doing a live text message poll to assess their thinking. This was shortly after the economic downturn of 2008-2009. Watch it unfold! 2/3 of the people in the room thought a recovery […]

Accelerate Innovation, Deliver Growth: Why Dozens of CEOs Have Been Booking me to Lead Their Corporate Offsite Events (and what this means for you!)

Most effective Web sites feature a ‘hero image’ which is designed to grab your attention AND get across in one simple sentence what it is you provide. Mine changed – specifically with the ‘hero text’ which ran ever since the newest version of my Web site launched in 2019. That section went from this: To […]

Video: “Tell me a story about the doomiest gloomiest group you’ve ever seen!”

Someone asked. So I hit the studio and filmed a thing.

Daily Inspiration: “When everyone else is doing something, do a different thing!”

“When everyone else is doing something, do a different thing!” – Futurist Jim Carroll It started out like this, but then it went differently as I worked things through…. Here’s the thing – Oblio never had a point. Huh” What? Years ago when I abandoned the traditional publishing world and went the self-publishing path, I […]

Daily Inspiration: “When it comes to the future, it’s the structure, not just the strategy, that matters!”

“When it comes to the future, it’s the structure, not just the strategy, that matters!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Or it can be put this way: “Those who structure for tomorrow will lead the opportunities of tomorrow!” Observations from another senior leadership meeting for a global powerhouse …. in this case, from a dinner talk held for his team […]