Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine months into the year I predicted. Know that the future whispers before it shouts. Listen now…
2026 Principles
For most of history, expertise meant knowing a lot. Increasingly, expertise means being able to get the right knowledge at exactly the right moment. That's Just-in-Time…
JimIsms
Fourth stop: energy.jimcarroll.com is live, with a companion PDF — The Future of Energy & Utilities. I've been in utility rooms since deregulation, interval meters and…
Energy & Utilities
Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine months into the year I predicted. Don't try to be certain, be decisive. Day 3 argued that…
2026 Principles
Organizations love talking about agility. Far fewer actually practice it. That's why I think of adaptability as Change Muscle. You don't build muscle by announcing that…
JimIsms
Thinking big, starting small, and scaling fast as demand, storage, AI and grid architecture all accelerate at once.
Disruption & Acceleration · Energy & Utilities
Third stop: education.jimcarroll.com is live, with a companion PDF — The Future of Education. I've been telling education audiences for years that many of today's…
Education
Comfort feels good today. It quietly costs you tomorrow. Even the office dog knows it. Embracing Mediocrity and Escaping Mediocrity are companion books distilling thirty…
Mediocrity
Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine months into the year I predicted. If you want to move fast tomorrow, you must unburden yourself…
2026 Principles
Here's a question every leadership team should ask: What if our next competitor isn't in our industry? That's the idea behind Category Blur. Technology has a habit of…
JimIsms
Lots of chatter online about Facebook's new AI agent, Muse.AI. It will do everything for you. Shop, do travel reservations, summarize your life. And there's not a…
Every map of the future starts as a scribble that breaks the existing map's rules. Rebellion is not chaos, it is direction nobody has drawn yet. I explore this idea at…
Being Unique
