Leadership

"Are you big on buzzwords and short on substance?" - Futurist Jim Carroll I'm preparing for an upcoming keynote later in November for an organization that just booked me, and asked them to share a bit of insight with me as to their current strategies, structure

"Optimistic societies are stable societies" - Futurist Jim Carroll A lot is going on. Next week is a pivotal week as the US chooses if it wants to go forward or back. On the day of the election, I'll be speaking to an audience of senior

"Sometimes the trends you think you need to be thinking about aren’t the ones you should be thinking about!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Today I'm in Scottsdale, Arizona, and in a few hours, I'll be the opening keynote speaker for XSpecs 2024. What

"Every single trend is both an existential threat and a transformative opportunity at the same moment in time!" - Futurist Jim Carroll The buzz is that everyone is going to lose their job. After all, that's what the media is telling everyone with breathless coverage such

"Be the person who sees the solutions, not the one who only identifies the problems!" - Futurist Jim Carroll You never read a LinkedIn profile that starts out boasting someone is just a problem-identifier - but you do see people boasting that they are a problem-solver! You never

"Committees are an infrastructure designed to race you to the bottom of opportunity!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Committees kill ideas. Committees kill all initiative. Committees kill the idea of innovation. Committees are the destroyer of all things. Did I mention I think committees are a bad idea? "