"When unimaginable headlines become reality, you've got to come up with once unimaginable strategies!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
If the future gets weird, maybe your strategies need to get weird as well.
Think about it: we are less than thirty days into 2026, and the rulebook hasn't just been rewritten—it’s been incinerated. We are witnessing a compression of history, where decades of change are now crammed into days. The definition of "stability" has evaporated, replaced by a relentless volatility that refuses to pause.
Headlines that were unimaginable a decade ago, let alone a year ago, are now common.
All of this means that if you are still operating on last year's logic, you aren't just behind; you are watching a different movie entirely. And this one isn't a rom-com, it's a horror show.
In that context, any comfort zone is gone. The headlines proving that "it can't happen here" are being printed daily. In this environment, caution is the most dangerous strategy of all. Thinking fast and moving faster is the only way through the mess.
To survive this year (and beyond), you need to dismantle your assumptions, destroy your complacency, and challenge your belief in stability..
You need to build strategies that feel as radical as the news cycle itself.
This means you have to stop planning for the probable and start preparing for the unimaginable.
Because the unimaginable is now reality.
After all, this week, Greenland, next week?
Futurist Jim Carroll is not a big fan of 2026 so far!