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"There is no shortage of big opportunities. There is a shortage of bold leadership!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

One of my fellow futurists recently included this line in a post I read - "We should be pulling more photons from the sun." He wrote it as an observation when he was flying into an American city, and saw an absolute dearth of solar panels on the roofs of homes and buildings. Solar energy - the infrastructure at least - has become desperately cheap and tremendously productive, and we are missing such a big opportunity.

This idea of things we are not doing but should be grabbed my attention, of course, so I set off to take a look at the material I've written in my blog since 2002 that might fit the theme. Much of my material covers not just my Daily Inspiration posts, one of which you are reading now, but reports on keynotes, trend overviews, research summaries, and more.

And so with that, I give you this list of 𝐀 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝟏𝟎𝟏 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐖𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐍𝐨𝐰 (𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩. I used Google Notebook LLM to analyze my material, given that there are almost 5,000 posts. There is a PDF version, of course, that I also used with my new handy-dandy AI-slide generation tool that an AI helped me write - written in Python, it's become an invaluable tool. It's a BIG FILE - grab it here.

This list should inspire more bold thinking, but also some sad reflection, since it is indicative of the sad state of leadership in our world today.

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Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/05/decoding-tomorrow-your-daily-future-inspiration-dont-let-initiative-begin-long-after-its-best-before-date/

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