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"Nothing tightens the purse like uncertainty!" - Futurist Jim Carroll As the saying goes, 'We're not in Kansas anymore.' But it certainly feels like it's the fall of 2008! Time to roll out some older brochure copy! What's up? This

"Imagine a crazy idea. Now imagine it's real. That's your future!" - Futurist Jim Carroll  In a few hours, I'll be speaking at the annual event for Texas Farm Credit Bank. In the room? A few hundred folks are on the various

"Many people bought a car. Not an ideology." - Futurist Jim Carroll It's an "interesting" time to own a Tesla. That's probably an understatement. I've said before that it is becoming increasingly difficult to be someone who speaks and writes

"New risk demands new thinking. Uninsurable risk demands bold thinking." - Futurist Jim Carroll In just about a month, I'll head to California to headline a major insurance conference. The fact that I'm speaking in a region that is home to one of the

"Where are you holding back your opportunities because you don't want to change?" - Futurist Jim Carroll Last week, the National Association of Landscape Professionals had me down to Costa Rica for their leadership forum; you might have seen some information about that when I posted

"Doing the wrong thing for the wrong reason never has a snowball-in-hell chance of being the right thing!" = Futurist Jim Carroll It takes a lot to get Canadians pretty angry. Suffice it to say, a sleeping giant woke up from the snow, looked around, and didn't