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.
“If there was ever a time to ’THINK BIG,’ it would be at this very moment!” – Futurist Jim Carroll It’s like a picture from the olden days! My time on stage! It’s hard to believe that just over two months, I was excited to launch my latest book, “Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast: […]
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Sometimes you’ve got to take a longer term view. Because, what’s the alternative?
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It’s not hard to notice that absolutely everyone seems to be writing about leadership in these challenging times. How do you take an approach that makes sense? The most important article I saw this week is this one. It was sent to me by one of my younger sisters – and it had a pretty […]
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This is my 5th or 6th global economic recession. I think I’m starting to get pretty good at trying to manage my mindset. Because back in my old life when I spent my time on stage – just over a month and a half ago – my running joke was that I couldn’t walk on […]
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Like everyone else, it has been tremendously difficult to focus on the future, let alone think about it. With the crisis still unfolding around us and the depths of the downturn becoming obvious, it is clear that we are in new and uncharted waters. And yet, I found myself in a little bit of the […]
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I’m ready – are you? I’ve kept myself busy through the month ramping up the sophistication of my home office broadcast studio. Here’s an overview of what my team can do! There are several elements in my kitbag: live Web broadcast video keynotes, with interactive Q&A, interactive polling and verbal discussion, from my home studio. […]
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Clearly, a futurist is not an essential service – and so I work away at the home office, doing what I do. The days are very different, but then again, sometimes not much – I’ve already been working at home for 30+ years! But I am keeping busy cutting video, writing things, working on projects […]
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There’s lots happening online with science – healthcare, genomics, technology. Fast genomics, open source respirators and more. Global collaboration is fast and furious, and its fast and furious out there. I filmed this in the home studio. This stuff is cause for optimism!
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Years from now, we will look back and realize that many industries, technologies, concepts and ideas accelerated throughout the crisis, as the opportunity they provided, proved to be critical. Consider, for example, what is happening with the acceleration of drone technology concepts – it’s happening RIGHT NOW.
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I hit the home studio yesterday and filmed this. What will you do today to align yourself? This was the second attempt. The first onehad a similar storyline, but I had camera issues – focus! I decided to post it regardless.
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“Shock, anger, denial, anger, bargaining ….acceptance. The seven stages of economic grief are very real, but it’s how you move through them that matters!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Hey, do you remember your life but just one month ago? It seems like forever! I was getting ready for a trip to Las Vegas where I […]
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Optimism. It’s oxygen. It matters. Set the tone. Fix the short term, but keep the eye on the long term. I filmed this in the home broadcast studio yesterday.
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“Optimism. It’s your fuel for your future!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I have a good friend who accuses me having relentless optimism at the best of times. He’s a skeptic on so many fronts & I always work to bring him back from the edge of his pessimism. And so here we are today! What […]
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Today, whether you agree or not, it’s clear that the global economy changed. What has it changed to? No one is certain, but what we can be sure of is that many industries will be fundamentally different; job losses and cutbacks will occur; some companies won’t make it; there will be pain and grief; turmoil […]
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The day Lehman Brothers went down in 2008, at an event where I was on stage, a CEO spoke to his team on how to react. The guidance was vivid, to the point, and spot on. It profoundly impacted what I did that day and every day going forward. I filmed this clip 5 minutes after […]
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Speaker bureau, event and meeting planner friends – leadership folks – clients…. My 2020-21 Recession keynote topic was just published. “9 Things You Need to Do Right Now: Rediscovering Growth, Opportunity and the Future When Volatility is the New Normal!” Right now, it’s crisis mode. But I want you to know I’M READY when your […]
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Right now, people have too many questions, and not enough answers. This upsets the traditional balance that people base decisions upon. The result? They stop making decisions. Organizations freeze up. Here’s what I learned in previous economic downturns…. Stay tuned to this blog! When you don’t have a stage in which to share the future, […]
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As your world changes, your mindset matters! I don’t want to discount the depth of the economic downturn that we now are entering; the fear that people feel; the tragic circumstances that people are finding themselves within; the uncertainty that envelopes us. Yet I do know that we’ve been here before, and that we know what […]
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Here’s an update as I continued yesterday to ensure that my home office broadcast studio is ready to go … I’ll have full details next week as to the full range of online service offerings. Know this – when you are ready to go, I will be as well! The future doesn’t stop with […]
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I’m often providing detailed strategic guidance to senior executives and leaders on trends and the future, and certainly the economy has become a big part of what I address today. Much of my time is now spent putting into perspective the fact that we’ve always had downturns; there’s still plenty of growth opportunities out there; […]
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Really lousy video quality, but here’s a clip from what I told an audience at a major global conference in Washington DC in November 2008. The global economy went through it;’s epic meltdown just 2 months before. You need to watch this right now, and learn from it. Start moving back to the future again! […]
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It’s pretty certain that we are going to have an economic recession. The downturn is going to be swift, ugly, unpredictable. So what are you going to do as you move through the seven stages of economic grief? Here’s a clip from a panel discussion I did for the Wall Street Journal after our last downturn. […]
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Given the rapid pace of global economic developments with Covad-19, organizations are faced with a pretty stark choice! What I’ve learned over 25 years is that it is our ability to keep focused on the future in the face of massive uncertainty is that our ability to move forward defines our success. With that in […]
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