Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

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

Situational Awareness

I'm working so hard every day not to focus on what I can't do today - but what I can do tomorrow if I don't do those things today!

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26 Principles for 2026: #14 Hype Immunity

If you chase every shiny object, you will exhaust your organization and achieve nothing.

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26 Principles for 2026: #13 - Wisdom Inversion

Depending on who you are while reading this, there might be a major reality you need to consider - it might very well be the case that your grey hair is now a strategic liability.

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26 Principles for 2026: #12 Strategic Humility

To really get ahead in 2026, you need to understand the trap of hubris and why your past success can be your biggest future liability.

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26 Principles for 2026: #11 Radical Subtraction

It might not make sense, but to move faster in our exponential world, you need to stop adding things and start taking things away.

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26 Principles for 2026: #10 Collaborative Velocity

My message is consistent - your success comes from the reach of your collaborative knowledge networks. In an exponential economy, it now depends on the speed with which you can extend them and reach new ones.

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