Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

Thoughts, stories and ideas about tomorrow from Futurist Jim Carroll. Sent each workday since August 2016.

Agility

Volatility as the New Normal

We're more than halfway through 2025, and it's been a wild year for many. And if one thing is clear, it's pretty clear that nothing is clear.

Volatility as the New Normal

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Success

Momentum

Momentum

"Your moment is right now. Are you ready?"

Creativity

Waste More Time!

Waste More Time!

"Invest in your creative capital. You'll see a return on your imagination!"

Big Future

The Reality of Trends

The Reality of Trends

"One person's skepticism is another person's gold!"

Exponential change

Exponential Change

Exponential Change

"Are you ready for the inconceivable to become conceivable?"

Artificial Intelligence

Bend Your Mind

Bend Your Mind

Make your imagination matter more."

Artificial Intelligence

AI and the Peak of Inflated Expectations.

AI and the Peak of Inflated Expectations.

"A strategy based on hype isn't a strategy. It's a tombstone for cash"

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Managing Uncertainty

Managing Uncertainty

"You have three choices. You can panic. You can choose to do nothing. Or you can act, and begin to innovate, change and adapt for the inevitable upturn!"

Timing

Hype

Hype

"The more they hype the trend the faster you should back away!"

Institutional Incompetence

Institutional Incompetence

"When everyone knows something needs to be done, but no one knows where to start!"

Keynotes

Tomorrow Today

Tomorrow Today

"The future has already arrived! You just might not know what to do with that fact!"

Execution!

Execution!

"Having ideas is easy - turning them into reality is genius!"

Careers End

Careers End

"You are going to need to recruit people for jobs not yet in existence based on skills not yet developed and you need to do this yesterday!"

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