Futurist Jim Carroll"The toughest job for a leader today is finding the strategy within the hype!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Let's talk about what CEOs are thinking about!
What got me thinking about this? One year ago yesterday, I keynoted a pretty exclusive group in New York City - 500 handpicked CEOs from around the world who are members of an invitation-only networking organization. My NDA doesn't allow me to speak or write much about who was actually in the room - but I will note that two well-known Senators were on stage just before me. (I kind of laugh now at their message at the time that they believed the guardrails would hold and that bipartisanship would prevail! Like, LOL!)
I can say that I had companies that ranged from $200million to $4 billion there, and that there was pretty intense interest in the topic I covered of relating future trends to core business strategies. Why did the organization pick me? A few of the folks on the organizing committee had seen me before, and liked the way I specifically lined these trends to reality - and cut through the hype.
And heaven knows there's a lot of hype around us right about, particularly around AI, but also with respect to many other topics - and that's why I am relentlessly focused on providing clarity for this moment.
Right now, there seems to be a crushing need for CEOs and senior executives to find that reality. That's one reason why I just changed my LinkedIn banner to reference the fact that I'm the guy that CEOs trust!
Many of my talks don’t just include keynote presentations — I’m often engaged to come into small, intimate leadership meetings to help senior executives understand some of the trends that will shape their world. Over the years, this has included many presentations to small groups of CEOs within a forum for private equity capital.
I’ve also done quite a few of these presentations for very-high-net-worth families and firms. It has included such groups as the Wrigley family foundation and companies that manage the Rothschild wealth. And in one of the most fascinating events I’ve participated in, I was invited to Athens to address several hundred representatives of what are known as ‘family offices’ — organizations that manage the wealth of the world’s wealthiest people.
In all of these cases, the room is full of senior executives eager to cut through the noise and find reality. And for them, the bottom line is this: Without a strategic purpose, there is no purpose!
And in that context, the essence of leadership today is finding the strategy within the hype.
Never forget that!
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