Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

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

Megatrend #7 - Energy Decentralization

"The power plant of the future isn't a smokestack. It's all around your home." - Futurist Jim Carroll The global energy grid is in the midst of its most profound transformation in a century. For decades, our model has been simple: massive, centralized power

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Acceleration

Compound Knowledge

You should know that you don't know what you need to know. You should know that you need to know it. And then, set out to know it.

Volatility

About this Recession

Discussions I have with people, show all the other warning signs - projects being postponed, capital budgets being curtailed, strategic planning sessions being canceled.

Books

Close the Gap

If you don't have what it takes, do what it takes to get to what it takes!

Dancing in the Rain Book

Choosing to Dance

There is a trap in this thinking: the new normal won't be the same as the old normal. While you are busy waiting to get back to it, 'it' will have changed.

Initiative