Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

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

26 Principles for 2026: #6 Iterative Obsession / Return on Failure

If you aren't making mistakes, you aren't moving fast enough. You aren't testing the boundaries. You are operating on old assumptions while the world shifts beneath your feet.

26 Principles for 2026: #6 Iterative Obsession / Return on Failure
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Leadership Hubris

Leadership Hubris

"Invincibility is a myth" - Futurist Jim Carroll A belief in invincibility is often the start of defeat. And in all truth, once you start to think you are invincible - you probably aren’t! You might think that you are on top of the world; that nothing

Leadership Agility

Leadership Agility

"Shift faster!" - Futurist Jim Carroll One thing is for sure at this moment in time - the future is going to be WILD! And at this moment in time, you need to move away from asking yourself why you are so slow - to asking the hard

Policing and AI

Policing and AI

"It's the types of crime that we can't yet imagine that we should be worried about!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Later today, I'll be doing a talk for the senior leadership team of the RCMP - that's the Royal Canadian

Self-Moderation

Self-Moderation

"Opinions are like stomach gas. Sometimes you need to keep it to yourself!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Way back in January 2022, as some series of ongoing madness unfolded around the pandemic, I wrote my "Social Media Serenity Prayer" - "Grant me the maturity to

Fear Vs. Courage

Fear Vs. Courage

"Fear is a liar. Choose courage instead." - Futurist Jim Carroll Today I want to write about resilience - why it's important, and why chasing resilience instead of giving in to fear is too important. To do that, though, I need to tell you how I

Coping.

Coping.

"Try and be your better self" - Futurist Jim Carroll As they say, Monday's are for motivation. For many, these are not easy days. It's OK not to be ok. How do you handle a world of massive change, volatility and disappointment? It takes

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