TWO BOOKS BY FUTURIST JIM CARROLL
Recognize what holds you back.
Decide what moves you forward.
THE MIRROR
THE MAPFROM SATIRE TO STRATEGY
Read them together and the conversation becomes the point. Embracing Mediocrity exposes the excuses, habits and comfortable assumptions that keep us stuck. Escaping Mediocrity challenges us to replace them with purposeful action.
THE WARNING · 125 SATIRICAL RECOMMENDATIONS
How to do Nothing Notable and
Accomplish As Little as Possible!
A tongue-in-cheek guide to underachievement. Recognize the self-defeating behaviours, lowered expectations and rationalizations that make average feel comfortable.
Laugh at the “advice.” Then ask where you’ve seen it in your own life or organization.
THE ANSWER · 125 STRATEGIES FOR PROGRESS
How to Accelerate Your Future
and Achieve Breakthrough Results
The practical companion: ideas for challenging limiting beliefs, creating momentum and turning ambition into daily progress.
Move from recognizing the pattern to changing what you do next — as an individual, a leader or a team.
THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN THEM
Questions to bring to your next team discussion, inspired by the books’ contrasting approaches.
| The habit that keeps us stuck | The choice that moves us forward |
|---|---|
| Avoid the difficult conversation. | Make the conversation useful. |
| Keep doing what has always worked. | Question what tomorrow will require. |
| Wait for the perfect moment. | Create progress with the next step. |
| Reward looking busy. | Focus on meaningful results. |
READ. LAUGH. REFLECT. ACT.
FOR TEAMS, LEADERS & OFFSITES
Two books. A shared starting point.
The pair can help a team talk honestly about what is holding it back, without beginning with blame. Satire makes familiar habits easier to recognize. The practical companion gives the discussion somewhere to go.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Futurist. Author.
A guide to what comes next.
Jim has spent more than three decades helping leaders and organizations respond to disruption, innovation and the accelerating future. These companion books bring that experience into the everyday habits that determine whether people make progress or stay comfortably stuck.
His books bring the ideas from the stage to the page, helping readers turn changing circumstances into possibilities for action.
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