Insight Index – Page 2

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.

10 GREAT STRATEGIES FOR 2023

Embrace the chaos: volatility is the new normal – run with it!
Think transformation, not innovation: you can’t just chip away at the edges anymore – think and BE big!
Lock in the lessons learned: we learned a lot during the pandemic – capitalize on it!
Double down on flexibility: be agile, fast, and responsive – the world doesn’t tolerate slow anymore!
Master the timing: it’s not the trend that matters – it’s when and what you do with it that matters

Accept inevitability: your business model is changing, forever – stop fighting it!
Manage your FOMO: get away from hype – it never works for you
Embed realism: instead, be realistic about your strategy – and get moving!
Battle cynicism and doubt: don’t think it won’t work – make it work!
Accept acceleration: because the future is fast, and you need to pick up the pace!
Go further! Since every great list goes to 11 – Think BIG, start small, and scale fast!

DO THIS WITH THIS KEYNOTE STRUCTURE FOR 2023

Futurist Jim Carroll has learned that the big issues that CEOs want their organizations to be thinking about as we finally get away from firefighting in the era of Covid and back to aligning to the future can be found in this type of keynote structure.

It’s time to revisit the future!
We need to think of transformation, not innovation
We must lock in the lessons we learned during Covid (fast teams, new collaboration, innovating at speed, etc)
We choose not to participate in any recession/economic downturn by doubling down on growth
We need to re-identify the real trends that provide opportunities going forward
We need to strategize around these, and get moving FAST!

Your Future into 2022 and Beyond: Why It Won’t be 2019 Anymore!

As part of my ‘acceleration gap‘ theme, I hit the virtual broadcast studio and filmed a concise piece on what world-class innovators learned throughout the pandemic – and what you are up against if you don’t change!

Our Universe Shifted : What’s Your Strategy for 2022, Post-Covid?

Based on the inquiries and bookings occurring here, it’s quite evident that world-class organizations are now beginning to align their strategy to a world of 2022 that will be dramatically different from what they knew in 2019. Yet, how different? What’s new? What’s disappeared? What new challenges and opportunities are on the horizon? What’s your plan? […]

The Future: If You Look Back at Today from 2030, What Will You See?

One of the challenges with the global pandemic is that so many companies were essentially involved in triage – fighting tooth and nail every day to align to sudden new business realities – that many forgot about the vast, disruptive change sweeping their industry. Two years ago to the day today, I was on stage […]

Custom Leadership Video Production – “World Class Innovators” & Reinventing Your Thought Leadership Process!

Are you a CEO, HR executive or strategy expert that needs to bring your team up to date with the big issues in your industry – yet you can’t quite yet bring your team together in person? And you’re sick of Zoom? How about something different – a customized leadership event series, professionally filmed, that […]

Trend : Workback Pushback – What happens when People DON’T Want to Go Back to the Office?

As we start to enter the next, new phase of our post-pandemic world, what happens when people don’t want to back to the office? What happens with those who like their new space? Expect this question to dominate the world of HR, future trends, leadership, and all kinds of other topic areas in the months 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 […]

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!

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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!”

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. […]

Ask A Futurist – “What’s Going to Happen with Globalization?”

I recently established a new video series to address some of the many questions that come to me over the course of the week. I take a look at the questions that arrive and choose one or two a week that might provide some useful insight. One visitor asked “what’s the future of globalization? How […]

One Year Ago Today: I Spent 2 Hours in Shock. Then, I Started to Reinvent. Did You?

And so there it is! One year ago today, it was clear that my universe was shifting – my keynote life on stage in Las Vegas and elsewhere was coming to an end for quite some time, and that I had to reinvent FAST! Facebook and Cisco had just announced the cancellation of their annual […]

Video: Your Post Covid Reality – The Trends that Define Your Future!

The ultimate impact of Covid-19 on your future? Beyond the fact that we will be living in a somewhat surreal and unusual future, another fact remains – every organization is entering a new future in which a new era of massive acceleration defines everything you will do. I hit the virtual broadcast studio in my […]

Reinvention: An Interview with a Pastor!

The fourth instalment in my new video series on the theme of ‘Reinvention’ – what does it take, what’s involved, what’s the mindset? We are all headed into a dramatically different and transformed future – our success comes from our ability to reinvent. In this episode, I interview Pastor Keith Pelzer. Forget the idea of spiritual […]

The Great Resignation? It’s Not a New Trend – It was Simply Accelerated by Covid!

Back at the end of the 90s, while the dot.com world was flying high, I was already busy speaking and writing about the future – with constant media interviews. In addition, I wrote for numerous Canadian publications – the Globe & Mail, National Post, Profit, Marketing Magazine. Not only that, but I was busy with radio […]

What 2020 Taught Me About My 2021! Aligning to New Realities and Defining New Opportunities!

I hit the virtual broadcast studio in my basement yesterday, and filmed a story around what I learned from 2020 …. Here’s what I know: speed matters : agility is everything acceptance of reality was key : that became a fuel for momentum optimism ruled : attitude was everything action mattered : indecision failed reality shattered […]