Insight Index

JIM’S INSIGHTS

Panic, do nothing, innovate and adapt? The choice should be clear!

TRENDS INSIGHTS

What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You!

Video: What Comes Next with the Decline of an Empire?

Lots of opportunity for other nations! Watch!

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!

Video Playlist: The Trends that Define Your Post Pandemic Future

Maybe you’ve been stuck in the 7 stages of pandemic grief – anger, denial, bargaining. The smart ones among us moved to ‘acceptance’ a long time ago – including myself. What will your post pandemic future look like? If you aren’t thinking about it now, you won’t have the strategies to get you to this […]

Video: Rethinking Your Future: How Has the Global Pandemic Changed The Axis of Your Universe?”

Your universe has shifted forever as a result of Covid-19 and the global pandemic. Have you? These are the 10 new rules that should guide your strategy, enlighten your leadership, and move you forward!

Daily Inspiration: “The axis of your universe has shifted forever. Did you shift with it?”

“The axis of your universe has shifted forever. Did you shift with it?” – Futurist Jim Carroll I’m releasing a new video this morning – “Rethinking Your Future: How Has the Global Pandemic Changed The Axis of Your Universe?”. Based on some work I was doing for a client in the energy sector, the video […]

Daily Inspiration: “Successful people tend to arrive in the future before the future does!”

“Successful people tend to arrive in the future before the future does!” – Futurist Jim Carroll A frame grab from a pre-event video that was produced for me by my fantastic overseas video partner Armine, aka “Alex.” Ok-doke! It rocks! Watch the video! I’ve started including these videos – short, sharp shocks of pre-event insight […]

Video: The Rapid Emergence of New Careers!

I’ve got a TON of video to share from my virtual keynote earlier this week on the topic of the future of education. Here’s the first – all about the rapid emergence of new careers. It features some context with the career path of my oldest son, who now works as a ‘location intelligence professional’ […]

Daily Inspiration: “Face facts: your business model is faced with a surge of inevitability. Innovate & adapt – don’t give up & surrender!”

“Face facts: your business model is faced with a surge of inevitability. Innovate & adapt – don’t give up & surrender!” – Futurist Jim Carroll So yesterday morning I had a bit of a rant in this post, stating my belief that the global meetings, event and convention industry is pretty delusional – we won’t […]

Daily Inspiration: ““There’s a lot of ‘guessticating’ going around right now. You might want to forecast your future on something more than just an estimate or a hunch!”

“There’s a lot of ‘guessticating’ going around right now. You might want to forecast your future on something more than just an estimate or a hunch!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Guessticating – you are probably surrounded by it every single day. Heck, you are probably making a few guessticates every day too! Think about it […]

Video: “You need a gut-check. A reality slam to the side of your head.”

You need a gut-check. A reality slam to the side of your head. Our old world is gone. We’re building a strange, new, different one. If you aren’t aligned to that fact, then you will wake up at some point in the future and ask, “how was I so dumb?” Go through the list in […]

Aggressive Indecision 2020: How Organizations Are Failing By Freezing FAST! (Hint: Accept Your New Covid-19 Reality)

It seems there are a lot of people reading my new book, “Think Small, Delay Now, Scale Slow!” They so busy thinking that Covid-19 will ‘soon be over’ that they aren’t reinventing themselves for our new future. The result? They’re going to be left far, far behind. I’m watching people, organizations, associations and how they […]

Article: “Innovating for the future: 5 ideas that could emerge post-COVID”

The job of a futurist, of course, is to predict the future! And since this ‘thing’ began, I’ve been working behind the scenes furiously, analyzing, thinking, pandering, researching, observing. Here’s a quick little hit of an article that covers just a few of my thoughts. Innovating for the future: 5 ideas that could emerge post-COVID […]