Failure

"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

"Fictional utopias are usually just that!" - Futurist Jim Carroll We are living in the era of grand, sweeping tech utopian visions promoted by the technology titans of our time. Yesterday, this post by Marc Andreessen - that AI would eventually lead to some sort of future nirvana

“Sometimes, satire can become all too real” – Futurist Jim Carroll There’s no doubt that there might not be a lot of logical, rational stuff going on in the next few years. That’s why I keep stressing that volatility is the new normal. With that in mind, I can’

"It's easy to overpromise, but even easier to underdeliver" - Futurist Jim Carroll Nothing great is ever achieved when the gap between expectations and reality is never closed! Leaders can become trapped by their rhetoric - the more ambitious their promises, the more pressure they face

"Denial costs more than disruption ever will" - Futurist Jim Carroll Are we witnessing the end phase of the auto industry's lost battle and the cost of cultural denial? That might be the case. Watch this short video clip with Ford CEO Jim Farley at the

"Beware the dangerous illusion of invincibility!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, “25 Things I’ve Learned That Will Carry Me Into 2025.” He is putting this together based on his 30-year career as a futurist, trends, and innovation expert, advising leaders of