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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?
Read MoreFuturist 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.
Hey, guess what! You’re structured for slow in a world that is ridiculously fast! What’s your plan?
Read MoreSo – 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 […]
Read MoreKEYNOTE: 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 […]
Read MoreSimply 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!
Read More“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.
Read MoreAs 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 […]
Read MoreSo 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 […]
Read MoreSo 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!”
Read MoreLast 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 […]
Read MoreI 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 […]
Read MoreWhat 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 […]
Read MoreRelentless 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. […]
Read MoreI 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 […]
Read MoreIt’s been almost a year since I walked off stage from my last in-person keynote. With clients like NASA, the World Bank, Disney, and Pfizer, I’d been busy for 25 years providing future-oriented leadership insight to some of the most admired organizations in the world. I walked off the early last March, stage, and into […]
Read MoreThe 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 […]
Read MoreI’m seeing a lot of buzz within my global leadership client base about the need for short, customized, professionally produced pre-filmed videos that can take the place of virtual online events and keynotes. This might include a pre-filmed video of TV production broadcast quality for internal distribution, or a series of weekly videos on a […]
Read MoreA quick little observation. That is all! The video I reference is right here! Some some facts about your future: 68% percent of organizations have said that global pandemic has forced them to adapt and change their business model 77% recognize the need for systemic change in their operations 82% believe a more challenging economy […]
Read MoreHere are some facts about your future 68% percent of organizations have said that global pandemic has forced them to adapt and change their business model 77% recognize the need for systemic change in their operations 82% believe a more challenging economy is in their future and yet 47% of CFO’s are not very comfortable […]
Read MoreI 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 […]
Read MoreJust over a year ago, Pfizer had me in to open a senior global leadership team meeting, with a talk that looked at the future of healthcare. This was the summary that I wrote about what I covered: The rapid evolution of genomic science, the acceleration of gene therapy, the virtualization of healthcare with medical […]
Read MoreA leading franchise organization had me in for a virtual keynote on what the restaurant industry looks like as we enter in our eventual post-pandemic world. I’ve cut out the middle bit – it was an hour long, highly iterative presentation that the client was thrilled with – where I cover the major trends influencing […]
Read MoreA clip for my Notable Keynotes – Lessons in Leadership For Our Eventual Post-Pandemic Recovery series – about my keynote for the Swiss Innovation Forum in Zurich. As a new late-in-life skier (I took it up at the age of 40!), there was a lot of links between my innovation message and my experience learning to […]
Read MoreHere’s a clip from the opening moments from my keynote for the Round Table Owners Association yesterday – it’s a long lasting and fast moving pizza franchise group based on the west coast. They had me in for a virtual keynote on the restaurant industry going forward – and I set the agenda early on! […]
Read MoreA clip for my Notable Keynotes – Lessons in Leadership For Our Eventual Post-Pandemic Recovery series – about the time the WSJ – the Wall Street Journal – had me in for a talk to senior business leaders. The context? The psychological impact of the great economic meltdown of 2008-2009 was still a challenge to be […]
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