Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

"While you might never open many closed minds, be careful to never close your own!" - Futurist  Jim Carroll A closed mind is a dangerous thing. There's a lot of them about. And the fact is, many innovation efforts fail because of all the closed minds

"It's not just about the trends. It's the speed at which they are happening" - Futurist Jim Carroll For some reason or other, I've had a significant number of event inquiries from the Middle East, in particular, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. These

"Be the person that sees the opportunities that others cannot see!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is using his Daily Inspiration blog post – one of which you are reading now – to generate material for a book he has in progress with the working title, “How to

"Chasing success? Be fast, bold, disruptive, focused, certain, flexible, anticipatory, and young at heart!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Two days ago, I found myself in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where I was the closing keynote speaker for the annual meeting of Protein Canada. (The song by the Guess Who might

"Avoid chaos. It's better to have an actual plan than the ‘concepts of a plan’" - Futurist Jim Carroll Let's talk about planning. It seems that a lot of people are suddenly talking about planning. Indeed, it seems there was a sudden spike in

"If you aren't amazed by all the amazing trends that are unfolding around you, you're watching the wrong future!" - Futurist Jim Carroll The future happens fast! The thing about being a futurist is that you know that certain things are inevitable - much