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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.

Accelerating Insight – What’s Next for Your Industry?

Over the years, I’ve become a widely recognized industry expert – in multiple different industries! Most of my keynotes for the last fifteen years have been for global Fortune 1000 companies – corporate offsites led by a CEO or other CxO. How broad is my expertise? I just sent a list to a potential client […]

I’m Escaping My Basement! A Message to My Speaker Bureau Partners and Agents!

2 years in, it’s pretty evident that global corporations are thinking once again about what comes next, and what to do about it. Over the last 20 years, the world’s most established speakers bureaus have brought me into their global clients. Washington Speakers Bureau, Leading Authorities, APB Speakers, BigSpeak, the Harry Walker Agency – all […]

Daily Inspiration: “The acceleration of uncertainty should not decelerate your initiative!”

“The acceleration of uncertainty should not decelerate your initiative!” – Futurist Jim Carroll How quickly our future can change! Just a week ago, it seems, the world was in a different place. Russia was on the doorstep of the Ukrainian border, threatening the most ill-advised, illegal invasion since World War 2 – yet many of […]

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 […]

Video: Resilience and Agility – My Research on Successful Leadership Strategies

If there is one lesson that organizations have learned through the pandemic, it’s that their future survival is now heavily dependent upon the resilience they’ve put in place – and that resilience demands a new level of agility within their leadership team to respond to new levels of volatility! I hit my virtual broadcast studio […]

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 […]

Daily Inspiration: “Beware: There is massive volatility beneath the surface of calm!”

“Beware: There is massive volatility beneath the surface of calm!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Survival now depends on resilience; agility defines success. That’s the key issue you need to think about going forward. You need to keep the thought of VUCA forefront in your mind – volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity. I’m pretty convinced that the slow […]

Resilience and Agility: The New Critical Post Pandemic Leadership Strategies

Rethinking Your Future – A Video Playlist for Disruptive Thinking!

One thing is certain – you aren’t going to have the future you thought you would have. The most important thing you need to be doing in an era of disruptive change is to challenge yourself to think different, aligning your innovation efforts to what comes next. Here’s a few short video clips to get […]

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. […]

Seeking Resilience? Achieive Agility!

Busted supply chains. Challenged logistics. Fast-changing business models. More demanding consumers. The end of stability in the era of VUCA – volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity. What do you do about it? Focus on agility teamwork. I’ve been on stage speaking about this goal for well over 15 years – here’s a little bit of insight!

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 […]

Keynote Topic: “Deciphering The Disruption: Deconstructing the Metaverse, Blockchain & Crypto, NFT’s, Web 3 and More – A Reality Check for Humans!”

“Some people say that the next generation of technology promises to unleash a wave of innovation that parallels and exceeds the impact from the arrival of the Internet economy. Others say it’s more excessive hype built on accelerating FOMO – “Fear of Missing Out!” Making sense of reality is a challenge! That’s where Futurist Jim […]

Daily Inspiration: “Learn more stuff. Empty minds bring empty results!”

“Learn more stuff. Empty minds bring empty results!” – Futurist Jim Carroll One of my favorite trends I’ve covered for a long time has been the issue of knowledge. For example, back in 2011, I observed that the volume of scientific knowledge was increasing exponentially: …. the rate of discovery based on research into gene […]

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 farmers.’ Which one are you? Check the list below. 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 attitudes […]

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 […]

Video: An Interview with a “Professional Optimist!”

Here’s a little bit of fun – I decided to do an interview with one of the most optimistic people I know! The backstory? What’s going to happen in 2022, when it is pretty evident that volatility is the new normal? I find myself wondering about that as we start to enter our third year of […]

10 Things That Are True About the Future (It’s fast, it’s everywhere, and you are likely already out of date!)

Clearly the rate of change – whether with business models, product life-cycles, skills and knowledge – is speeding up. With such change, there’s a lot of uncertainty within many industries as to what to do next: a senior executive of one client commented to me from his perspective, “…entities are engaged in survival tactics because […]

“10 Phrases That Define 2022!”

ABOUT JIM CARROLL Jim is the world’s leading global futurist, keynote speaker, business trends, and transformation expert, recognized worldwide for his compelling motivational style, delivered on stage or via his world-class virtual broadcast studio. In his 30-year career as a speaker, Jim has shared his insight with over 2 million people worldwide. Jim is represented […]

Daily Inspiration: “At this very moment, you are surrounded by ‘modern things’ that will become ‘things from the olden days’ during your lifetime!

“At this very moment, you are surrounded by ‘modern things’ that will become ‘things from the olden days’ during your lifetime!” – Futurist Jim Carroll We live in the era of acceleration – and with that, things become a part of our life and then disappear faster than ever before. The knowledge we have at […]

Innovate and Adapt – or Die: The Sobering Reality of Disruption

It’s that simple. Here’s a simple list of companies that were once great successes. Then they weren’t: Blockbuster. Borders. Lehman Bros. Kodak. Circuit City. RadioShack. Pan-Am. Enron. E.F. Hutton.RCA. Tower Records. Polaroid. Woolworths. Compaq. Arthur Anderson. The list could go on…. companies that were leaders in their time, and then failed, due to a lack of […]

Daily Inspiration: “Get ready for a world of real-time, autonomous, spatial intelligence farming!”

“Get ready for a world of real-time, autonomous, spatial intelligence farming!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Way back in 2005, I wrote a blog post that summarized much of what I had been talking about in the previous year as the key trends defining the future of agriculture. Little did I know that search engines would […]

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 […]

Leadership – “What Does It Mean When Your CEO Says We Don’t Need to Do That Right Now?”

It means you are in pretty big trouble. I hit my virtual broadcast studio to explain why. Why does this happen? Straight to the point – it’s because of these failures in leadership: Here’s the list. You know I’m right! they don’t know what’s next they don’t want to know what’s next they refuse to […]