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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.

Daily Inspiration – Corporate Longevity & Innovation – “‘Your time is gonna’ come’ need not be your epitaph!”

“‘Your time is gonna’ come’ need not be your epitaph!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Innovate or die. It’s that simple. Here’s a simple list of companies that were once great successes. Then they weren’t: Blockbuster. Borders. Lehman Bros. Kodak. Circuit City. RadioShack. Pan-Am. Enron. E.F. Hutton.RCA. Tower Records. Polaroid. Woolworths. Compaq. Arthur Anderson. The list could go […]

Daily Inspiration: Leadership & Tomorrow – “Reality always trumps wishful thinking!”

“Reality always trumps wishful thinking!” – Futurist Jim Carroll There’s a reality gap. A gap between an understanding of how industries are changing, and how people hope it will change. A gap between what it takes to solve deep, complex issues, and how people think they can be solved. A gap between the skills needed […]

Daily Inspiration – Personal Growth – “Regret: It’s that thing you’ll live with if you never do the things you should have tried to do!”

“Regret: It’s that thing you’ll live with if you never do the things you should have tried to do!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Life is a series of doors of opportunity all waiting to be opened! Are you keeping them shut? I was reminded of this fact yesterday when a writer for an industry publication […]

Daily Inspiration: Innovation & Leadership – “Be the spark that ignites the flame of change!”

“Be the spark that ignites the flame of change!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Most people have a problem. In fact, most people know that they aren’t quite ready for all the change that they are faced with in their future, yet know that everything they are involved with – their business model, skills, product or […]

Daily Inspiration: The Economy and Innovation – “Markets are not trends!”

“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 […]

Daily Inspiration: Innovation & Agility – “Innovative organizations work to narrow the gap between opportunity and action!”

“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 […]

Daily Inspiration – Leadership : “You’ll never get to your future if you keep trying to get back to your past!”

“You’ll never get to your future if you keep trying to get back to your past!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I’ve had a vague sense of unease for a time that too many industries and the leaders of companies within them are all too eager to try to slide back into yesterday and give up […]

Daily Inspiration: AI & Leadership – “Dive In. Figure it out”

“Dive In. Figure it out” – Futurist Jim Carroll My attention was drawn last week to an article about Amazons’ thinking behind a big bet on artificial intelligence; Amazon built a $2 trillion company through years of aggressive spending on its retail and logistics businesses. Its future gains will likely be determined by the billions […]

Daily Inspiration: Leadership – “Your biggest mistake is believing that you don’t need to do it right now”

“Your biggest mistake is believing that you don’t need to do it right now” – Futurist Jim Carroll What does it mean if you have a great idea, and your superior blows it off by saying “we don’t need to do that right now.” It means you are in pretty big trouble. Why does this […]

Daily Inspiration : AI & Strategy – “To make tomorrow real, you need to be real about tomorrow!”

“To make tomorrow real, you need to be real about tomorrow!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Over the last two years, I’ve done dozens of CEO-level corporate offsites focused on AI. Here’s what I’ve learned corporate groups are looking for – first and foremost, they know that they need to be realistic about where this might […]

Daily Inspiration: Retail, Supply Chain, Logistics – “Bring on tomorrow!”

“Bring on tomorrow!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Like the sign says. Bring on tomorrow – because if you don’t, your tomorrow might not work out so well! The photo is from my stage setup yesterday – an exhilarating day in Fort Worth with a keynote for key customers of the rail/intermodal company BNSF. I probably […]

Daily Inspiration: Economic Outlook – “The US consumer seems to have entered into a state of perpetual economic gloom. Some companies seem all too eager to follow them into the abyss”

“The US consumer seems to have entered into a state of perpetual economic gloom. Some companies seem all too eager to follow them into the abyss” – Futurist Jim Carroll Here we go again! I seem to spend a lot of time talking companies off the ledge, and I might be doing this again next […]

Daily Inspiration: Forward Thinking Organizations: “Shift your mindset from ‘surviving’ to ‘thriving'”

“Shift your mindset from ‘surviving’ to ‘thriving'” – Futurist Jim Carroll Have you ever noticed many people thrive on the word survive? They’ve just got to survive the day. Survive the change they are immersed in. Survive the project. Survive the recent events. Survive the golf round. Why survive when you could thrive? Years ago, […]

Daily Inspiration: Leadership & Innovation – “Disruptors value defiance over blind obedience!”

“Disruptors value defiance over blind obedience!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Be like Chuck House. In a world in which you are surrounded by yes-men, be the person who is willing to say no since sometimes following the lead is exactly the wrong thing to do. Years ago, the book The Intrapreneurs, by Clifford Pinchoot III, […]

Daily Inspiration: Innovation & Leadership – “Successful companies got rid of all the bull excrement”

“Successful companies got rid of all the bull excrement” – Futurist Jim Carroll Let’s be real about it. Successful companies have learned a lot about the future – and the fact that it isn’t as complicated to get there as they once thought it would be. In doing so, the old barriers that were in […]

Daily Inspiration: Reinvention and Moving Forward – “Don’t judge your success by what you did before. Judge it by what you will do next!”

“Don’t judge your success by what you did before. Judge it by what you will do next!” – Futurist Jim Carroll If your life is to be a play, always be prepared for a second act! Or perhaps, get into a mindset where you will always have even more complex performances with many different scenes […]

Daily Inspiration: HR, Skills and Recruitment – “Your attitude should get you everything!”

“Your attitude should get you everything!” – Futurist Jim Carroll The business of recruitment is broken. In the last many years, much of it has moved to a world of automated resume processing, analytical examination of talent and skills, and the dominance of cold, hard statistical analysis. Many companies simply demand a cover letter and […]

Daily Inspiration: Volatility & Trends – “You’ll never find your opportunity in the depths of your despair!”

“You’ll never find your opportunity in the depths of your despair!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I’m down in Silicon Valley in California today, where I’ve got a last-minute film project with Intel and HP on what else – artificial intelligence! More to come on that project in the days to come. But while walking around […]

Daily Inspiration – Future Initiative – “Motivation is overrated in the face of better insight!”

“Motivation is overrated in the face of better insight!” – Futurist Jim Carroll “Are you a motivational speaker?” Hell yes! But not really. That’s the question I always get from new people I meet when it comes around to the topic of what we do for a living. The question quite possibly could drive me […]

Daily Inspiration: Business volatility – “Today? It’s business as unusual!”

“Today? It’s business as unusual!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Today’s photo is from an event I did a few years ago for a group called Havi International – which represents a massive number of companies that are suppliers of products to Mcdonald’s. The theme of their event was, if it is not obvious, “Partnering for […]

Daily Inspiration: Artificial Intelligence – “It’s the reality that matters (not the hype!)”

“It’s the reality that matters (not the hype!)” – Futurist Jim Carroll I have a good friend from my ski club who has been reading my Daily Inspiration post (what you are reading right now) for many, many years. He told me a few months back that he always finds them to be interesting and […]

Daily Inspiration: Leadership & Change – “Assumptions are often just a dangerous, delusional certainty!”

“Assumptions are often just a dangerous, delusional certainty! (Because they will blind you to the reality of your reality!)” – Futurist Jim Carroll Often, the thing that holds people back from their ability to get to tomorrow is their insane ability to hold to their beliefs, even in the face of absolutely fascinating compelling evidence […]

Recent AI Keynotes

Just a few of the recent clients who have had me in for an executive level overview of the real impact of AI. Not the hype, not just ChatGPT – but the real, substantive, transformative short, medium and long term trends disrupting entire industries. I rolled out an update to my artificial intelligence focused Website […]

Keynote: YPO Gold Houston – “The Acceleration of AI” – Houston, Texas

What do you get when you get a room full of CEOs eager to understand the potential investment and venture capital opportunities emerging in the many different aspects of the global AI industry? You get a highly interactive, engaging, and experiential keynote from Jim! By way of background, YPO Houston is an organization of 250 Chief […]