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101 Things #100: still be talking about how committees are evil well into the future - because stupid...

A dated future observation from Jim Carroll’s December 7, 2021 “101 Things We Know About Our Future” list.

We will still be talking about how committees are evil well into the future - because stupid companies will still form committees
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Publish Date2021-12-07
Updated Date2026-09-18
Made Date2021-12-07
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Original 2021 statement: We will still be talking about how committees are evil well into the future - because stupid companies will still form committees

What Jim has written about this

From “Daily Inspiration: “It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!”” (January 2023)

Most successful companies today will eventually go the way of Sears, Blockbuster, and Kodak - because of leadership complacency and hubris

The arrival of a faster future means the arrival of new insurance risk - and insurance companies will have to ensure for forms of risk that don’t even yet exist, not even knowing what they are insuring for!

Fifty years out, people will still write lists of ‘101 things’ because it provides a nice structure for creative thinking

From “Daily Inspiration: “Committees are the black holes of the corporate universe - it’s where innovation goes to die…”” (December 2019)

Committees are killing your future - because just as light cannot escape from a black hole, your concept for disruptive, creative thinking is guaranteed to disappear forever when it is pulled into the gravitational field of this lowest form of group- think.

Committees are cancer. They are the lowest form of mindthinki that pretty much guarantees a path to failure, a road to the mediocre, a direction to nowhere and a commitment that wavers like jello in a bowl.


Read the full pieces on jimcarroll.com:

Daily Inspiration: “It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!”
Daily Inspiration: “Committees are the black holes of the corporate universe - it’s where innovation goes to die…”

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