"Books That Make a Point"

Oblio Press

Oblio Press was established in 2004 by Jim and Christa Carroll.Oblio has published books by Futurist Jim Carroll, Everest-Adenturer and Business Leader Scott Kress, and author Nicola J.D. Maher.Jim Carroll provides some content for the publishing company through his various books and activities.Christa Carroll provides Oblio Press with most of the creative design, book layout and design, editorial guidance, project management, idea insight, and management of complexity. She’s pretty awesome at what she does.

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Embracing Mediocrity

How to Do Nothing Notable and Accomplish as Little As Possible

Finally, a book that celebrates the art of doing just enough to get by!In a world obsessed with excellence, "Embracing Mediocrity" offers a refreshingly tepid approach to life's greatest question: Why try at all?This groundbreaking guide to underachievement provides readers with a meticulously crafted road-map to embracing their inner average!For those tired of inspirational quotes and motivational insight, this comprehensive manual delivers the perfect antidote to success!

Released Feb. 2025

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Escaping Mediocrity

A book that provides the perfect antidote to a mediocre life!

In a world hungry for transformation, Escaping Mediocrity illuminates the path from ordinary to extraordinary. This dynamic guide maps the territory between settling and soaring, revealing the precise moments where breakthrough decisions launch everyday people into a remarkable achievement.Through 125 research-backed strategies and real-world success stories, readers will discover how small, intentional choices compound into monumental results.It's a practical playbook for anyone ready to trade comfortable plateaus for the exhilarating climb toward their full potential.

Release date:
May 2025!

Dancing in the Rain

How Bold Leaders Grow Stroner in Stormy Times.

Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times is a powerful call to action for anyone navigating uncertainty—from executives and entrepreneurs to team leaders and changemakers. Drawing on decades of real-world experience advising global organizations, Futurist Jim Carroll lays out a bold new framework for leading through disruption, downturns, and unpredictability.This isn’t a book about waiting for clarity. It’s about creating it.Across 20 concise, insight-packed chapters, Carroll explores the habits, mindsets, and strategic decisions that separate those who thrive in chaos from those who retreat into indecision. You’ll discover why action beats perfection, why speed creates insight, and how the most resilient organizations innovate not despite uncertainty—but because of it.Whether you’re facing economic turbulence, cultural retreat, or industry reinvention, this book will help you move.It’s your roadmap for making progress when the path is unclear—and your rallying cry for building a future that doesn’t wait. Because the leaders who shape tomorrow aren't the ones who flinch. They're the ones who dance in the rain.

Coming
Summer 2025

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Think Big. Start Small. Scale Fast.

Stories from the Stage on Innovation, Disruption And the Accelerating Future

The book captures the unique insight and guidance that Futurist Jim Carroll has developed from 25 years of speaking appearing on stage around the world.What does the book cover? It is a story of inspiration, observation and transformation : and provides motivational guidance to those who seek how to navigate our increasingly complex, and ever faster world.Notes Jim:“Somewhere along the way, I came to realize that this unique experience — a life on the stage — had provided me with some very unique insights into how people try to deal with a world of massive change and challenge.This book captures a bit of that insight."

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The Future Belongs to Those Who Are Fast

The Best of the Insight from JimCarroll.com

“We live in a period of time in which change is happening faster than ever before. Success will come to those who innovate, change and adapt!”Notes Jim in the introduction to the book: “What I have learned over time, regardless of the industry or group, is that the pace of change that we have seen in the last few years is not going to slow down – the future does truly belong to those who are fast.The future doesn’t belong to those who have owned a market place because of their history. Past success doesn’t guarantee a future of winning. Resting on ones laurels is perhaps the best method to place yourself at the greatest risk in the future.That leads to an undeniable fact – it will be the ability of an individual, a leader, and an organization to keep up with fast paced change that will increasingly define their potential for future success.

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Now What?

Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future.

Reinvention surrounds us.It is inherent to our future, fundamental to our success, and a pathway to our action.In this inspirational and powerful book, Futurist Jim Carroll takes a look at the concept of 'reinvention' from a personal perspective.What is the essence of the mindset of those who have successfully reinvented?What drives their attitude, motivates their action and accelerates their efforts?Their stories, insight and guidance will provide you a powerful pathway for your own reinvention.

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What I Learned From Frogs in Texas

Saving Your Skin with Forward Thinking Innovation

Forget about the concept of innovation as simply involving the design of cool new products. In the high-velocity economy, where faster is the new fast, it’s your ability to adapt, change, and evolve, through a constant flood of new ideas, that will define your potential for success.”“If they don’t get off that road, there is going to be a big problem and it’s going to be ugly!”With that quirky observation of a group of frogs in Texas, Jim Carroll captures the essence of the challenges faced by organizations today.We are in a time that demands a new agility and flexibility: leaders must have the skill and insight to prepare for a future that is rushing at them faster than ever before.

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Ready, Set, Done.

How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast

“Forget about the concept of innovation as simply involving the design of cool new products. In the high-velocity economy, where faster is the new fast, it’s your ability to adapt, change, and evolve, through a constant flood of new ideas, that will define your potential for success.”If you are trying to figure out how to deal with the faster world that surrounds you, then you need this book.The fast paced world around us is relentless and unforgiving.It drives increased customer and business partner expectations, requires faster innovation, and necessitates a faster more complex response to rapidly changing circumstances.That’s why you need to learn how to innovate when faster is the new fast – by getting into a mindset where you’re prepared to figure out a solution to a problem, almost before you know you have a problem.

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