Jim Carroll

If anything is real in 2025, it is the fact that organizations have mastered the art of saying one thing and doing another - often with a pretty negative intent.

As fast-moving trends reshape every industry, a critical blind spot has emerged in today's leadership. Companies know they must upskill their workforce to deal with the trends that define tomorrow, and yet they believe their team is not ready.

Legacy automakers seem to be giving up on the trend to once again concentrate on carbon vehicles, squeezing as much as they can out of a dying platform, while new, aggressive Asian automakers take over a future based on EVs.

If someone had to build a future version of their personal operating system, what would it look like? What would our version 30.0 look like? And what do you have to do to get there?

The very concept of money, the nature of a transaction, and the role of the institutions that manage our wealth are being fundamentally reimagined.

The retail landscape is undergoing and still very much in the midst of a tectonic shift, moving decisively away from a product-centric universe to one governed by experiences, relationships, and values.