Leadership

"Behind any pattern of brilliance, you might often find a patina of madness" - Futurist Jim Carroll One must wonder if we are now watching, in a very public fashion, a once brilliant iconoclast descend into a very real form of madness. It happened with Vincent van Gogh,

"Leadership leads. Legacy lingers." - Futurist Jim Carroll What a week! As one person commented on social media: "Gotta say, as a Canadian, watching this season of America has been absolutely riveting. Kudos to the writers." My view and that of many others? Joe Biden will

"Ego is the destroyer of worlds" - Futurist Jim Carroll Upon seeing the atomic bomb explode, Robert Oppenheimer is reported to have quoted from the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad Gita - ‘Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.’   The line has become synonymous with one

"You’ll never get to your future if you keep trying to get back to your past!" - Futurist Jim Carroll I've had a vague sense of unease for a time that too many industries and the leaders of companies within them are all too eager

"Dive In. Figure it out" - Futurist Jim Carroll My attention was drawn last week to an article about Amazons' thinking behind a big bet on artificial intelligence; Amazon built a $2 trillion company through years of aggressive spending on its retail and logistics businesses. Its future

"Your biggest mistake is believing that you don't need to do it right now" - Futurist Jim Carroll What does it mean if you have a great idea, and your superior blows it off by saying "we don't need to do that right