Leadership

"‘Your time is gonna’ come’ need not be your epitaph!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Innovate or die. It's that simple. Here's a simple list of companies that were once great successes. Then they weren't: Blockbuster. Borders. Lehman Bros. Kodak. Circuit City. RadioShack.

"Reality always trumps wishful thinking!" - Futurist Jim Carroll There's a reality gap. A gap between an understanding of how industries are changing, and how people hope it will change. A gap between what it takes to solve deep, complex issues, and how people think they

"If you keep chasing motivation instead of chasing trends, you're doing tomorrow all wrong!" - Futurist Jim Carroll One of the most interesting - and perhaps one of the most common - situations in my line of work is when you get contacted by a potential

"Aligning to tomorrow? You’ll succeed when you get beyond a series of awful decisions driven by the delusion of denial!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Most people believe that they can keep doing tomorrow what they are doing today, even when what they are doing today is not

"While you might never open many closed minds, be careful to never close your own!" - Futurist  Jim Carroll A closed mind is a dangerous thing. There's a lot of them about. And the fact is, many innovation efforts fail because of all the closed minds

"It's not just about the trends. It's the speed at which they are happening" - Futurist Jim Carroll For some reason or other, I've had a significant number of event inquiries from the Middle East, in particular, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. These