Success

"The time to escape mediocrity comes when you recognize the need to!" - Futurist Jim Carroll I'm considering a sequel! Should I? With the impending release of the book about mediocrity, I've realized the perfect companion piece to it is an anti-mediocrity book! Let&

"Innovation thrives in the building of sandcastles!" - Futurist Jim Carroll That's me in the photo above, taken yesterday during a sandcastle-building competition in Costa Rica. Later this morning, I'll keynote the National Association of Landscape Professionals leadership forum. Naturally, my attention was drawn

"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

"Every weakness carries the seed of strength!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Turn your weakness into strength! That isn't just some feel-good motto – it's the rocket fuel that's propelling the most successful organizations and individuals into the future. They've learned how

"People aren't impressed by what you say you can do - they're impressed by what you actually do!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Prove it. That's what matters. People remember people who get things done. People who get things done are the ones