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title: "Daily Inspiration:“We’re in the era of the end of incumbency, in which small dominates big, fast trumps ponderous, and indecision spawns failure”"
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# Daily Inspiration:“We’re in the era of the end of incumbency, in which small dominates big, fast trumps ponderous, and indecision spawns failure”

*“We’re in the era of the end of incumbency, in which small dominates big, fast trumps ponderous, and indecision spawns failure”* – Futurist Jim Carroll

![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/EndofIncumbency.jpeg)

This shot is from the Q&A portion of a keynote for a global company in San Francisco.

I came across the quote yesterday when someone was reading my blog post, “Aligning Acceleration and Agility: The Business Case for Fast”, which I wrote in 2012.

Five years later the quote looks even more accurate!