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.
What’s your path forward from the global pandemic? How will you ensure that you are aligned to the new trends that define your future while the old trends that were disrupting you march on at a furious space? Here’s the second little ‘show’ I did yesterday as part of my “Notable Keynotes: Lessons in Leadership” […]
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“No one ever won with the future by thinking small. Define your opportunity by resizing the scope of your ambitions!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I blasted out some walls in the basement yesterday, doing a massive expansion in terms of the studio size! Actually, I just found an interesting new software feature which let me […]
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The global pandemic and Covid-19 has forever shifted your future. What are you doing to align to reality? There are powerful leadership lessons that I’ve found throughout my 25 year speaking career, and I’ll be sharing those lessons over time with short broadcasts from my virtual broadcast studio. First up? NASA has had me in twice […]
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When you build a global career that has you providing advice, guidance and insight on the future and disruptive innovation to global leaders, you develop a little bit of critical insight along the way. Organizations like the World Bank, NASA, Disney, Nikon, Microsoft and hundreds more have brought me in for senior leadership or customer […]
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“Confront your organizational sclerosis : the thing about inertia is that you can’t simply run away from it!” – Futurist Jim Carroll An extract from my inaugural video yesterday for my forthcoming “Notable Keynotes : Lessons in Leadership” series – in the weeks and months to come, part of my virtual studio time will be spent […]
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“Confront your reality – your biggest potential always comes from solving your most complex problems!” – Futurist Jim Carroll How do you fit your big ideas into a small space? By understanding that YOU own the space and can take it where you need to. One of the most interesting things about my business over […]
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“Let me put it this way: there’s a pretty strong certainty that your impending failure is because you are in complete denial of your reality, a captive to your delusions, a prisoner of your expectations, and a subscriber to the massively irrational and ridiculously illogical!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Rant on! It’s my chicken slide! […]
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Are you thinking about your eventual post-pandemic future, and how you will align yourself to the opportunities that are unfolding right now? Or are you stuck in the here and now, unable and unwilling to comprehend what you need to do to align to ‘what comes next?’ This post will provide you some motivational guidance […]
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Lots of opportunity for other nations! Watch!
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“The thing about con-men – at least they are consistent in meeting our lowered expectations!” – Futurist Jim Carroll A few weeks ago, I decided that I would no make any political commentary on social media for at least 8 weeks – we live in a massively polarized world, and there is no upside. Having […]
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“Breaking News! Tomorrow’s opportunities are still out there! What are you doing at this very moment to be a part of them?” – Futurist Jim Carroll Who would have thought it could be so much fun to have a home broadcast studio! I get to design a new show any moment I want to! Yesterday’s […]
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I returned to my virtual broadcast studio yesterday, and filmed a video as to this fact – while you’ve been busy managing your pandemic reality, the future has still continued it’s relentless, disruptive march. You need to make sure you are still aligned to what comes next!
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Maybe you’ve been stuck in the 7 stages of pandemic grief – anger, denial, bargaining. The smart ones among us moved to ‘acceptance’ a long time ago – including myself. What will your post pandemic future look like? If you aren’t thinking about it now, you won’t have the strategies to get you to this […]
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“Who led your digital transformation strategy? Your CEO, CIO or CTO? No, it was Covid-19!” – Futurist Jim Carroll This is a two part story. The image is from a video I filmed yesterday afternoon on the accelerated need for leadership insight and the trend towards customized event videos. The actual quote comes from a […]
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Your universe has shifted forever as a result of Covid-19 and the global pandemic. Have you? These are the 10 new rules that should guide your strategy, enlighten your leadership, and move you forward!
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“The axis of your universe has shifted forever. Did you shift with it?” – Futurist Jim Carroll I’m releasing a new video this morning – “Rethinking Your Future: How Has the Global Pandemic Changed The Axis of Your Universe?”. Based on some work I was doing for a client in the energy sector, the video […]
Read More“Successful people tend to arrive in the future before the future does!” – Futurist Jim Carroll A frame grab from a pre-event video that was produced for me by my fantastic overseas video partner Armine, aka “Alex.” Ok-doke! It rocks! Watch the video! I’ve started including these videos – short, sharp shocks of pre-event insight […]
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“Every assumption you had is now irrelevant, your zone of uncertainty has expanded, volility is your new normal, and unpredictability is now your only certainty. Welcome to your new future!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I’m preparing and researching for a major upcoming insurance conference, and am knee-deep in my research, reviewing several hundred recently articles […]
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Upon starting to read the news yesterday, I immediately saw a number of articles which were focused on the Democratic National Convention, which starts today. Perhaps because I am in the business of holding the attention of an audience with the ability to deliver a powerful message with significant presence and energy – my attention […]
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“Stop talking about ‘ROI’ – return on investment. Start focusing on ‘ROR’ – return on reinvention!” – Futurist Jim Carroll A new era of massive economic uncertainty has been layered on top of accelerating business model disruption. The result is that many CEOs and leaders are uncertain as to which investments to make, when to […]
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“Innovate like the entirety of your tomorrow depends upon it. Because it does!” – Futurist Jim Carroll There are obviously some pretty significant changes underway in the global economy – and they are all happening around us right now. Massive changes to the workplace but more important – the attitude towards the ‘place’ of work. […]
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Because the future is what you make it!
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Fun fact: during a period of massive global upheaval, most people lose sight of the trends that matter. The result is that they wake up many years later like a surfer hit by a big wave. “Whoah, dude, where’d that come from?” With that in mind, I was inspired to hit the home broadcast studio […]
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It’s a good question, and you need to think about it. Because history teaches us who the winners are.
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