Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

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

On Confidence

A recent survey of 250 CEOs and board members revealed a stunning lack of confidence among corporate leaders regarding their ability to manage simultaneous, massive global disruptions.

On Confidence
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Growing Innovation

Growing Innovation

"Where are you holding back your opportunities because you don't want to change?" - Futurist Jim Carroll Last week, the National Association of Landscape Professionals had me down to Costa Rica for their leadership forum; you might have seen some information about that when I posted

Leadership and Laughter

Leadership and Laughter

"People never respect laughable credibility" - Futurist Jim Carroll People always see through the emptiness of laughable credibility! I don't know why I'm using this particular image, but it seemed to fit the mood of the quote. I generated the little guy on MidJourney

Canada.

Canada.

"Doing the wrong thing for the wrong reason never has a snowball-in-hell chance of being the right thing!" = Futurist Jim Carroll It takes a lot to get Canadians pretty angry. Suffice it to say, a sleeping giant woke up from the snow, looked around, and didn't

Grains of Sand!

Grains of Sand!

"Innovation thrives in the building of sandcastles!" - Futurist Jim Carroll That's me in the photo above, taken yesterday during a sandcastle-building competition in Costa Rica. Later this morning, I'll keynote the National Association of Landscape Professionals leadership forum. Naturally, my attention was drawn

Connecting Dots.

Connecting Dots.

"Science always has the last word!" - Futurist Jim Carrol My wife is a much smarter person than I am, always suggesting that I should stay away from some of the controversial topics of the day. But I'm not very smart. As a futurist, it'

Embracing Mediocrity - Book Update

Embracing Mediocrity - Book Update

"It's easy to embrace mediocrity, but harder still to resist its comfortable embrace!" - Futurist Jim Carroll For someone who loves to rush into a project, the process of seeing a project through to completion can be sometimes maddening. With that in mind, my wife and

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