Jim Carroll

"Own your future. Before someone owns it for you." - Futurist Jim Carroll Groupthink. Committees. Consensus. Buy-in. Harmony. Concurrence. Unanimity.  Conformity. These are the words, ideas, attitudes, and cultures that kill great ideas.  They are also the words and phrases that can kill your uniqueness, which is not

"If you keep blaming other people for all your problems, you've got a bigger problem than you think!" - Futurist Jim Carroll A break from uniqueness for a moment. You know you should never blame someone else for your problems, your errors, your blunders, your mistakes,

"Find out what makes you different. Do more of it!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Today's Inspiration is directly from the very opening moment of the book I've been trying to write. I'll be getting more into those issues from the opening and

"Being unique will get you to your future faster!" - Futurist Jim Carroll I'm starting a new series with this post. I don't know exactly how it will unfold, what course it will follow, or when it will come to an end, and certainly

"Don't let the bad moments define your good ones!" - Futurist Jim Carroll It was a wildly successful failure! Sure, I'm probably dead last in the Seniors Golf Tournament in which I participated this weekend, but I bear no shame. And, because I was

"Ego is the destroyer of worlds" - Futurist Jim Carroll Upon seeing the atomic bomb explode, Robert Oppenheimer is reported to have quoted from the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad Gita - ‘Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.’   The line has become synonymous with one