Insight Index – Page 12

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.

Daily Inspiration: “The future of work? It’s the skills you don’t know about that you need to be planning for!”

“The future of work? It’s the skills you don’t know about that you need to be planning for!” – Futurist Jim Carroll What can the legal cannabis industry teach us about the future? Quite a bit about the future of the workforce and skills. As I will often joke on stage, most major food companies […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Daily Inspiration: “Ignore consensus!”

“Ignore consensus!” – Futurist Jim Carroll The recession-that-isn’t-a-recession has been coming at us for a long time – if you listened to the headlines, you would have been frozen in fear since 2017 if not earlier! Let me offer you just a few of the headlines that have appeared in a constant drumbeat of negativity, […]

Keynote Topics 2023: Growth, Innovation & Creativity, Megatrends, Leadership and Acceleration

I just sent out my February update to all my speaker bureau partners – I’m represented by most of the major ones in the world and opened with this. It’s self-explanatory. Suffice it to say, this is what clients are looking for today! As we head into 2023, it’s pretty apparent there is a lot […]

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 […]

The BIG Future: “Regenerative Medicine” and a New Era of Healthcare Science

We might live longer. We will see the reduction, elimination, or perhaps eradication of diseases. We’ll fix broken bones with lab-grown materials. We will grow human organs for transplant. And in that context, we will be doing stuff tomorrow that seems like the science fiction of yesterday – because it is already starting to happen […]

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 : #18 The Battle for Reality

We live in perilous, scary times – there are people around you who actually believe the wild conspiracies found in this image below. (And actually, if you go down the rabbit hole of the creator, you will find a store where you can buy a poster of it – and some equally crazy stuff.) The […]

23 Trends for 2023: #16 The Great Decoupling

Globalization as we know it is over -and with that, one of the most basic assumptions which have driven the post-World War 2 economy has come to an end. That’s why trend #16 of my “23 Trends for 2023” is The Great Decoupling – what happens as the assumptions behind the success of globalization are […]

Daily Inspiration: “Hopeful Resilience”

“Hopeful Resilience: It’s our outer shell of determined defiance against any challenges we might face, reinforced by a relentless focus on optimism!” – Futurist Jim Carroll So I have a page on Google that is trending, which is kind of fun! It seems that one searching for the phrase ‘define 2022‘ ends up in my post […]

Daily Inspiration: “Negative people seem to believe they can drag you down and destroy your optimism. Prove them wrong!”

“Negative people seem to believe they can drag you down and destroy your optimism. Prove them wrong!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Something remarkable has been happening in the last month: millions of people have rapidly coalesced around an alternative to Twitter known as Mastodon. Rather than being one big system now owned by one megalomaniac with […]

23 Trends for 2023 : #15 Locking in Lessons Learned

Folks don’t want to talk about the pandemic anymore, but we should, for despite all the awful things that happened, and the massive divisions it has caused in society, one thing is clear: the way that organizations organize, learners learn, science sciences, and experts’ expertise, has forever changed. We learned a tremendous number of lessons […]

Daily Inspiration: “It’s not a lesson learned if you don’t lock it in!”

“It’s not a lesson learned if you don’t lock it in!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Folks don’t want to talk about the pandemic anymore, but we should, for despite all the awful things that happened, and the massive divisions it has caused in society, one thing is clear: the way that organizations organize, learners learn, […]

23 Trends for 2023 : #14 Reimagining and Reinventing

If what you sell, who you sell it to, how you sell it, and essentially, what it actually is – you’ve got to change things. If who you are, how you learn, what you know, and what you need to know, you need to reinvent. That means you need to reimagine your future – because […]

23 Trends for 2023 : #13 Peak Carbon

We all know the phrase – insanity is doing the same thing and over again and expecting a different result each time. It doesn’t happen. Neither does the mindset of clinging to old business models, out-of-date product ideas, irrelevant concepts, and reliance on yesterday’s strategy. In the context of that, it also includes the end […]

23 Trends for 2023: #11 The Massive Velocity of A.I.

There can’t be a bigger story in tech this year – other than the self-inflicted destruction of many aspects of the tech sector through hubris, arrogance, and fraud – than what has happened with AI. That’s why trend #11 of my ‘23 Trends for 2023‘ series is The Massive Velocity of A.I And it truly […]

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 […]