# Daily Inspiration: “It’s too late to prepare to be disrupted – you already have been!”
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“It’s too late to prepare to be disrupted - you already have been!” - Futurist  Jim Carroll The photo is from a keynote last fall for the SAP for Utilities conference - in the room were several hundred executives from the energy/utility sector. This was one of *many* talks I’ve recently done in this industry - I just headlined a similar event for Siemens in Houston, as well as a private, invitation only event for energy CEO’s in Vail for a private company, as well as several others. The energy sector is fascinating right now, with renewables (wind, solar, bio-energy) now starting to come in at a lower cost than traditional energy sources - a trend known as ‘grid parity.’ Its happening a lot faster than people think it would. But that’s only part of the trend - the real disruption is coming with community and local micro-grids - small energy sharing networks that allow people and companies to share the small scale energy production they have in place. It’s a pretty significant new reality for a long established industry - that provides both a lot of opportunity and yet a great degree of challenge. The quote is a reality of the state of change in many other industries as well - retail, for example, has been forever changed by Amazon and e-commerce; transportation has been disrupted by electric vehicles and self-driving autonomous technology trends; agriculture by big data and analytics.  Everywhere we look, disruption is real, it’s significant, and it’s happening faster than people think!

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Source: https://jimcarroll.com/2018/05/its-too-late-to-prepare/