Insight Index – Page 19

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: “It’s time to shift your thinking from ‘just-in-time’ to ‘just-in-case!’”

“It’s time to shift your thinking from ‘just-in-time’ to ‘just-in-case!’” – Futurist Jim Carroll First, they came for my golf! Now they might come for my coffee! This is getting brutal! Trend: Globalization is broken – that is one of the most significant and lasting impacts of Covid-19. While the stock market is rocking and […]

The Dark Underside of a Usually Optimistic Future: How Bad Could Things Get? Pretty Bad!

I bill myself as an “Optimistic Futurist.” My running joke when walking out on stage was – and is – “I can’t tell you that your future sucks, because then I wouldn’t get many repeat bookings.” But all kidding aside, I try to force myself each and every day into a positive frame of mind […]

Video : Understanding the Impact of the Acceleration Gap!

Are you structured for slow in a fast world? The global pandemic has changed the axis of our universe. What was disruptive before is now massively transformative. Do you have a strategy to keep up? Are you dealing with the reality of the acceleration gap? I hit the virtual studio to explain your challenge. History […]

The Era of Acceleration? It Just Got Faster!

Here’s a clip where I’m on stage a few years back, at an event where the CEO and his team are fine-tuning strategies and plans for the coming year. I’m there to set the context for the next several days with a talk about the future. They’re big in the global tech industry, manufacturing a wide […]

Daily Inspiration: “It’s no longer just survival of the fittest – it’s now the absolute dominance of the fastest!”

“It’s no longer just survival of the fittest – it’s now the absolute dominance of the fastest!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Time travel! This photo is from a manufacturing conference, and I’m captured on stage just moments into my keynote for over 2,000 senior executives. My message was that the future of manufacturing was all about […]

Checklist: Many organizations are structured for failure. Are you?

“Failure? It’s an attitude that is often preceded by its actual occurrence” – Futurist Jim Carroll Have you ever noticed that you are surrounded by people who seem determined to set you on a path to failure? Or who somehow seem to find joy in some weird passion to bring you down than to build […]

Your Biggest Challenge? You Are Structured for Slow – in a World that is Crazy Stupid Fast!

Hey, guess what! You’re structured for slow in a world that is ridiculously fast! What’s your plan?

We Are the Relentless Optimists. These Are Our Core Beliefs. You Might Want to Join Us.

“The future? It’s better to travel there in hope than to arrive in fear!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Spock would be pretty confused if he arrived on this otherworldly planet today – people who think science is fake, that deep challenges can just be made to magically disappear, and that every single bit of common […]

Video: The Future is Going to Happen Faster Than You Think!

On this day, in 2018. And if you think about it, the future was pretty slow back then. In the olden days, pre-Covid, before the world accelerated, and the Acceleration Gap became your biggest challenge going forward!

Keynotes I’ve Delivered: And the 101 Ideas on Disruptive Thinking, Innovation Acceleration and Your Next Future That They Provide

So – someone asked me if I delivered canned insight. LOL. I’ll just give you this playlist to start. And then, let me share what I really do. I decided to start listing a few clients with a short overview of the unique keynote titles or topic spin that formed the basis for my keynote […]

KEYNOTE: Bridging the Acceleration Gap Achieving Growth By Aligning to The Post-Pandemic Future

KEYNOTE: Bridging the Acceleration Gap: Achieving Growth By Aligning to The Post-Pandemic Future The global pandemic has changed the axis of our universe. What was disruptive before is now massively transformative. Do you have a strategy to keep up? Pre-pandemic, CEOs and organizations were dealing with a world of business model disruption, the acceleration of technology, the […]

Daily Inspiration: “A simple fact: those who invest in the future, get to the future!”

“A simple fact: those who invest in the future, get to the future!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Let’s talk infrastructure! After all, it seems a lot of people are! The world seems to be broken down into two groups of people: those who believe it’s a good idea to invest in the reality and opportunities […]

Unlock Creativity. Drive Innovation. Achieve Growth!

Simply put, as we slowly emerge from Covid-19, we are entering a new and more complex economy. You thought you had time to prepare for a faster future – and then the explosive acceleration of all trends happened. Now what? I’ll show you the way!

Trends: The Future of Healthcare Post-Covid

As a futurist, it’s been fascinating watching the impact of Covid-19 and the global pandemic on many industries. The broad brushstrokes are that it has accelerated previous trends to a remarkable degree. So it is with healthcare – here’s a short clip that puts it into perspective. Add to this the trends that were already impacting […]

Ask a Futurist – “How Do You Figure Out the Future?”

So I sent out a tweet this morning – and it led to a question that I took on in the virtual broadcast studio! How does a futurist figure out the future? In my case, extensive research, trends tracking, and much, much more. I’ve outlined in earlier videos the *extensive* research and customization that I […]

Trend : Faster FOMO : Why Dumb Trends Happen Faster Than Before, And What It Means for Your Real Future!

“Fear of Missing Out” – that’s the reality with many new hype trends! I take this apart in a video where I take apart Gamestop and meme-investing, NFT’s (Non-Fungible Tokens) and even Clubhouse — all of which are not really real trends to be concerned about. IMHO.

2021 – I’m Ready! Are You? Keynote Topics to Change Your Future!

As leaders begin to awaken from their pandemic-focused panic-based innovation strategies, they are starting to think about what comes next – and what they should do about it. Much of what you will be focused on will involve big leadership issues like these: how do you solidify the transformation that you put in place at […]

Daily Inspiration: “One thing is certain: you’re going to have to hire yourself a ‘Chief Resilience Officer!’”

“One thing is certain: you’re going to have to hire yourself a ‘Chief Resilience Officer!’” – Futurist Jim Carroll The world of cooperative commerce is breaking down, a victim of the global pandemic. And yet, that breakdown was already well underway pre-Covid a victim of rising economic trade nationalism. The events of the last year […]

Video: “EU Vaccine Wars, the Suez Canal, and Coffee Problems – What Today’s Headlines Mean for Your World in 2025!”

So today, I decided to take apart a few of today’s news headlines to put into perspective a key reality: You often don’t appreciate the seismic scope of the shifts while you immersed in them. I reference a few other videos in the clip. Here’s one I did a few weeks ago: “what’s the future of […]

Everything Has Changed with the Pandemic : Have You? Rethinking Your Leadership Strategies Going Forward

So I spent two minutes going down my virtual rabbit hole with a clip challenging you to think about what you should be thinking about right now! As they say in Hollywood, “I had a little bit of fun in post!”

Understanding 2021: A Graphic Keynote Summary To Guide You Forward!

Last week, I spoke for a small, intimate group of senior executives and entrepreneurs about ‘what to expect with the unexpected” – aka 2021! There was a wonderful graphic recording of my talk by Janet Holmes; she’s a Learning & Development specialist who’s discovered the power of visuals to capture key messages. You can see […]

Ask a Futurist – “What Does Consumer Behaviour Look Like Post Covid?”

I hit my broadcast studio yesterday to take on the top question of the week sent in via my Ask.A.Futurist series. Send in your question here, and if I select it, I’ll take it on! This week’s question? Basically around the issue of how we might see consumer behavior change as a result of the […]

“Ask a Futurist” – What Trends Are you Watching?

What trends are worth watching as we start to enter an eventual weird, post-Covid economy? How do you distinguish real trends from fads? What really matters? I took these questions on in my “Ask a Futurist” video today. I covered a lot of stuff – fad trends like NFT (nonfungible tokens), Clubhouse and meme-investing which […]

Post-Pandemic Leadership – What’s Your Plan?

Relentless volatility. Ongoing uncertainty. Information ambiguity. Unreliability. A lack of clarity. Ongoing vulnerability. Welcome to your new future. What’s your plan? My ongoing research, trends tracking and client discussions tell me that we are faced with a future in which you now need to move at lightning speed, without really knowing what might come next. […]