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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.

INNOVATION INSIGHTS

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

Introducing FutureBeat.Team – Two Unique Minds, One Unique Vision for Your Corporate Leadership Meetings!

I love launching new ideas – and it’s even more fun when it’s a unique partnership! “Since they met, it has been the goal of Futurist Jim Carroll and Rock Star Activator Tom Morley to change the way organizations and teams realize the opportunities of tomorrow.” Introducing the FutureBeat Team! A unique half-day leadership workshop […]

Video: An AI Interviews Futurist Jim Carroll About Artificial Intelligence!

Today, an AI interviewed me about .. artificial intelligence. We talk about strategy, what CEOs are thinking about, why I launched my new jimcarroll.ai Website, the AI Megatrends series I am writing and so much more!

Daily Inspiration: “Try as you might, you can’t ignore the risk in your next reality!”

“Try as you might, you can’t ignore the risk in your next reality!” – Futurist Jim Carroll (Editor note: This Monday, May 1, at 10 AM EST, Futurist Jim Carroll will be interviewed by an AI about the impact of AI. You won’t want to miss it! It will go out LIVE to his LinkedIn […]

AI Megatrends – AI In Manufacturing: Further Accelerating the Automation of Everything – and going from $6.2 billion to $181 billion in 8 years!

What’s the future of AI in the world of manufacturing? The simple answer – since it is already in widespread use, there is a lot more yet to come! Lofty promises Consider the trends which have already led to a massive acceleration of everything having to do with the world of manufacturing. As I describe […]

Introducing FutureFit.International: “At the bottom of hopelessness, there is a mountain of opportunity!”

Introducing FutureFit.International! It’s wonderful to launch a new initiative that I have put together with my good friend and strength coach Nicholas Ingel in South Africa. He was one of 7 people featured in my book, “Now What? Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your Next Future!” The country is in dire straits, […]

Daily Inspiration: “When everyone else is doing the same thing, do your own thing!”

“When everyone else is doing the same thing, do your own thing!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Nothing great was ever achieved by following the crowd because the crowd doesn’t have wisdom – it has the bias of common thought! With that in mind, realize that bandwagon and copycat innovation is one of the worst things […]

Video: Is the Legacy Auto Industry Finally Accepting the Future?

Companies fight the future, often when they refuse to accept it, acknowledge it, or know that they aren’t ready for it. Auto companies have been particularly egregious in this regard as they’ve tried to deny the reality of electric cars. But do they finally get it? I took on this topic in a podcast I […]

Daily Inspiration: “Trends are like bread. They go stale, fast. The fact is, you need deeper trends insight. Freshly baked.”

“Trends are like bread. They go stale, fast. The fact is, you need deeper trends insight. Freshly baked.” – Futurist Jim Carroll Tomorrow’s trends come at you fast – what was predicted yesterday for tomorrow is now changing, morphing, and evolving faster than ever before. The job of anyone trying to align to what’s next […]

AI Megatrends – AI In Healthcare – Why the Acceleration of Knowledge Will Be the Biggest Challenge!

ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and all the other technology that is in the press these days are massively disruptive – the future of the way we search and interact with information is set to change in massive ways. And yet, with all the attention on that, few folks are thinking of the other big […]

Daily Inspiration: ‘”You rarely hear a story about an enduring idea that doesn’t include a sidebar about the number of people who lined up to kill it.’

“You rarely hear a story about an enduring idea that doesn’t include a sidebar about the number of people who lined up to kill it.” – Neil McOstrich For the first time, a guest inspiration! And I found this such an inspiring post to write, I think I will do it again! Let me introduce […]

Daily Inspiration: “It’s often the most boring of trends that provide the most exciting of opportunities!”

“It’s often the most boring of trends that provide the most exciting of opportunities!” – Futurist Jim Carroll People don’t like ‘boring’ – it’s boring. They like fast-moving, exciting, edge-of-your-seat excitement. So too it is with the future – AI is exciting, it’s fast, it’s far reaching. That’s an exciting future. But boring? That’s to […]

The Big Future – Methodology Modification

It’s one of the least exciting and yet most far-reaching of future trends – for want of a better phrase, ‘methodology modification.’ What’s it all about? Essentially, we’ve been doing the same thing the same way for many decades (if not centuries) with the same basic methodologies – but the impact of technology, digitization, artificial […]

Daily Inspiration: “Consensus KILLS creativity!”

“Consensus KILLS creativity!” – Futurist Jim Carroll When I spend time with corporate groups focused on trying to accelerate their innovation culture and creativity mission, I often find that consensus building is at the root of all barriers. That’s because conformity kills creativity. During my years of studying innovation, and seeing both success and failure, […]

The Acceleration of A.I. – The Strategy and the Challenge

I’ve been speaking on stage about AI for years; as a futurist, it’s been top of mind forever! In this short broadcast, I’ll share my thoughts on what we need to be thinking about when it comes to the strategy of AI, as described over on my new website at https://jimcarroll.ai Everyone is talking about […]

Keynotes and Interaction: Audiences Have Changed. So Has the Method of Stage Interaction.

The role of a keynote speaker is to get a leadership team out of their innovation funk, away from organizational sclerosis, and aligned to the future with a creative and open mind. One of the ways of doing this is to help them understand, in real-time, some of the barriers that are in the way. […]

Short, Sharp Shocks of Strategic Insight: Why CEOs Are Accelerating their Offsite Leadership Meetings (Part 1 of 2)

Some years ago, I wrote an article for one of my representatives, the Washington Speakers Bureau. They represent such people as Condoleeza Rice, George W. Bush, Tony Blair, John Kerry, Magic Johnson, and Terry Bradshaw — global political, sports, and other leaders – and have been booking me into a variety of events since 2001. […]

ChatGPT and the Acceleration of A.I. – Recent Keynote Video Clip

I think you would agree with me that we’ve never quite seen a speaking topic emerge so quickly as what has happened in the last few months with artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, and all the related topics. I was on stage in Laguna Beach, California two days ago with several hundred insurance executives. A.I. was on […]

Artificial intelligence. A.I. ChatGPT. Stable Diffusion – The Promise and Peril of Our Fast Future (LONG POST!)

The advances in AI this year have been staggering and impressive. Can you ever remember when a new technology burst onto the scene with such wild speed? I can – when the World Wide Web emerged in early 1993, and corporate groups. associations and organizations were scrambling to establish a presence and figure out a […]

Daily Inspiration: “A brilliant idea badly executed often results in a better idea executed brilliantly!”

“A brilliant idea badly executed often results in a better idea executed brilliantly!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I’m trying something new and fun today! For a long time, services like “Buy Me a Coffee” have been used so that people can show appreciation for the hard work and insight that people share online! So if […]

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.

The BIG Future: The Longevity Divide

Since 1900, global life expectancy has doubled. But now, accelerating medical science, combined with a focus on lifestyle, is leading us to the era of the ‘super-seniors’ – a growing percentage of the population that will live a rewarding and fulfilling life to 100 and perhaps, beyond. At the same, time, however, many will die an early death. Increasing […]

The BIG Future: New Materials Science

This is a post about how dramatically your future is set to change. We’ll start here. My dad was a chemical engineer. He worked hard working with science – first, at a basic chemicals company; then, managing process and engineering at a liquor manufacturing company, and finally being in charge of a major company that manufactured […]

Daily Inspiration: “When everyone is thinking alike, do your own thinking!”

“When everyone is thinking alike, do your own thinking!” – Futurist Jim. Carroll Being unique is the basis of all innovation – because if you are doing what everyone else is doing, you aren’t innovating. You are copying. With that in mind, chase your uniqueness; thrive on your differences; celebrate your oddities. I’ve never liked […]

Video: Achieving Optimism – Learning from the Two Different Types of Farmers!

One of my favorite bits of insight I like to share from the stage concerns the story of the ‘two types of framers.’ Which one are you? Check the list below. And watch this short clip from one of my last in-person keynotes just before Covid. There’s what we might call the stuck-skeptics, who have […]