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“Where are you holding back your opportunities because you don’t want to change?” – Futurist Jim Carroll Last week, the National Association of Landscape Professionals had me down to Costa Rica for their leadership forum; you might have seen some information about that when I posted about their sandcastle-building competition! It was a great event […]
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“Science always has the last word!” – Futurist Jim Carrol My wife is a much smarter person than I am, always suggesting that I should stay away from some of the controversial topics of the day. But I’m not very smart, and as a futurist, it’s my job to connect the dots. I just draw […]
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“Broken trust? Broken futures.” – Futurist Jim Carroll I didn’t like season one. I sure as heck am not enjoying season 2. Anyway, while I’m doing my damndest to try to avoid the news, my trend news tracking service did bring up these comments about Agriculture Secretary nominee Brooke Rollins at her confirmation hearing yesterday. […]
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“You will never see the intelligence if you never try to use the tools!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I’ve long believed that you can’t talk about something if you don’t do that something. I certainly can’t talk about climbing Mt. Everest because I never have. My good friend Scott Kress has, and so he talks […]
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“Sometimes you need not be right you just need to be bold!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Welcome to 2025! Back in 2014, I wrote a series of predictions about 2025 – in a document titled, of all things, ‘25 Trends for 2025‘. (Intuitive!) At the time I wrote it, most of the news media were […]
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“Stop doing the things that make you marginal” – Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, “25 Things I’ve Learned That Will Carry Me Into 2025.” He is putting this together based on his 30-year career as a futurist, trends, and innovation expert, advising leaders of some of the world’s most prestigious […]
Read More“In the absence of clarity, choose ambition” – Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, “25 Things I’ve Learned That Will Carry Me Into 2025.” He is putting this together based on his 30-year career as a futurist, trends, and innovation expert, advising leaders of some of the world’s most prestigious organizations […]
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“Fail on your own terms!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, “25 Things I’ve Learned That Will Carry Me Into 2025.” He is putting this together based on his 30-year career as a futurist, trends, and innovation expert, advising leaders of some of the world’s most prestigious organizations on how […]
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“Align to reality. Ignore the hype!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, “25 Things I’ve Learned That Will Carry Me Into 2025.” He is putting this together based on his 30-year career as a futurist, trends, and innovation expert, advising leaders of some of the world’s most prestigious organizations on […]
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“Always remember that procrastination is just slow-motion failure. – Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, “25 Things I’ve Learned That Will Carry Me Into 2025.” He is putting this together based on his 30-year career as a futurist, trends, and innovation expert, advising leaders of some of the world’s most prestigious organizations […]
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“Find your niche. Be the specialist that others seek” – Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, “25 Things I’ve Learned That Will Carry Me Into 2025.” He is putting this together based on his 30-year career as a futurist, trends, and innovation expert, advising leaders of some of the world’s most […]
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“Optimistic societies are stable societies” – Futurist Jim Carroll A lot is going on. Next week is a pivotal week as the US chooses if it wants to go forward or back. On the day of the election, I’ll be speaking to an audience of senior government executives from throughout the United Arab Emirates in […]
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“It’s not just about the trends. It’s the speed at which they are happening” – Futurist Jim Carroll For some reason or other, I’ve had a significant number of event inquiries from the Middle East, in particular, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. These are very short-term inquiries – in most cases just a few weeks, and in […]
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“Recognize that every major trend first involves huge short-term risk but is often eventually followed by a massive upside!” – Futurist Jim Carroll One of the most important things to realize about any future trend is that it can be pretty difficult to achieve any opportunity from it until it matures. That means that in […]
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“The new art of foolproofing now involves proofing yourself against an increasing number of fools!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Gosh, it’s just weird out there, isn’t it? Remember this post a few months ago? “When the future becomes a culture war, watch the trends. Not the noise” I found myself writing this: It’s a weird […]
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“Markets are not trends!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Some wild headlines yesterday: In that context, I shared this image with one of my sons yesterday; he’s an investment advisor and works in the wealth management industry. I imagine he will have a busy day with a bunch of scared clients. All of this is to […]
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“Success in the next global economy will never come from chasing the ideas of the previous one!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Here we go again! History regularly has us this in these moments where we are surrounded by those who think progress involves going back to where we were, and those who believe that we […]
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“Innovative organizations work to narrow the gap between opportunity and action!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Let’s talk about gaps. Are you falling behind? Back in 2019, I began sharing on stage the idea of what I called the ‘Acceleration Gap,’ noting that the speed of change driven by fast trends was starting to outpace the […]
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“It’s not the hot trends that matter, it’s the transformative ones!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Have you ever come to realize that it’s usually while you are watching the really hot trend, the really important trend you aren’t watching is unfolding at speed? That’s certainly been the case with AI – while everyone has been […]
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A video clip where I’m on stage in Dublin, speaking for KPMG Ireland, on the impact of the “AI Megatrends” on the future of healthcare. AI is bigger than large language models – and this clip puts into perspective the disruptive impact of AI on healthcare, medical, and pharmaceutical trials.
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“Construct your opportunities by demolishing your fears!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Here’s a fun one I’ve got coming up in October! Five Chicago area construction associations representing unionized workers are bringing me in for a talk on the impact of AI in construction. I’m eager to put into perspective the reality of the future for […]
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A Warren Buffet company! They brought Jim in for a talk at their annual key customer conference – in the room were representatives of most major retailers, as well as logistics companies like FedEx and UPS. Jim took a look at the next-generation AI and its impact on the supply chain, including AI trends involving […]
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“When the future becomes a culture war, watch the trends. Not the noise” – Futurist Jim Carroll It’s a weird time to be a futurist – have you noticed that the future has become a culture war? While you deal with the realities of science, technologies, trends, and tomorrow, large groups of people seek to […]
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“Yesterday’s knowledge won’t cut it in tomorrow’s world” – Futurist Jim Carroll I asked an AI to draw a picture of a car from ‘the olden days,’ and this is what it imagined. It might be more complex than vehicles actually used to be! But let’s talk about cars. By the time you are reading this, […]
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