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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.

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

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 […]

The 7 Deadly Sins of Covid Business Denial

And so here we go again! Having lived in this state of suspended reality for so long, we seem surrounded by those who are unable to align to the inevitable. How do we know? Because we hear the words and phrases they used that provide them a foundation for their failed disbelief. For years, I’ve […]

22 Trends. 22 Minutes. 22 Opportunities for 2022 : A Virtual Leadership Kickstart for 2022!

I just shared this update with my many speaker bureau partners. It might provide some food for thought for you too! Good morning! It seems that just while we were looking at 2022 with a wary eye of optimism, the sudden arrival of Omicron can pull us back in to, well, non-optimism! Our industry and […]

“Workback Pushback” – When The Media Catches Up To Trends You’ve Already Covered!

So the New York Times ran an article about the fact that people are showing reluctance to go back to work. I predicted this in a video I filmed last May about some of the major trends we might anticipate going forward. As we start to enter the next, new phase of our post-pandemic world, […]

Though Leadership at Speed : Aligning Your Team to the Era of Acceleration!

For over 25 years, I’ve challenged leadership teams at some of the most fascinating organizations in the world – such as NASA, Disney, Pfizer, Mercedes – to align to an era of new, fast disruptive change. I suspect that with faster change, they are going to need faster insight – and that’s the type of […]

Trend : The Future of Construction Post-Covid : It’s Now Built on a Foundation for Speed!

Virtual works. Yesterday, I delivered a concise, 15-minute keynote for eBuilder, the construction project management platform that is part of the Trimble technology infrastructure company. Attention spans are different online – people zone out faster. That’s why content that delivers short, sharp shocks of concise insight is so powerful. Give it a watch to understand […]