Jim addressed Toronto Hydro leaders at a CEO Leadership Meeting on electrification, AI, battery storage, distributed energy and the leadership challenge of navigating an…
Case Studies · Energy & Utilities
The people who shape what comes next are usually the ones still asking why, long after everyone else stopped. That restlessness is a competitive advantage, not a…
Being Unique
Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine months into the year I predicted. Your brain is built for addition. The future is built on…
2026 Principles
I've been covering the link between future trends and innovation strategies for 30+ years. I went back through my blog posts, stretching to 2002, to dig out the nuggets…
How Innovation Happens · Innovation
Discuss. Review. Revise. Circle back. Another meeting. Sound familiar? Decisions, not discussions, are what actually move things forward. That's one of the sharper…
Mediocrity
Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine months into the year I predicted. Scale immediately or fail slowly. There is no middle ground…
2026 Principles
I've been covering the link between future trends and innovation strategies for 30+ years. I went back through my blog posts, stretching to 2002, to dig out the nuggets…
How Innovation Happens · Innovation
Introducing Yottabits! I registered YottaBit.com in 2000. (And yottabit.net and yottabits.com) It took me 26 years to do something with it. Yottabits? It's all about 10…
For more than 30 years I've stood on stages around the world with the same message. Here it is, compressed into a couple of minutes: "The challenges are vast, the trends…
Leadership · Videos
Every interesting career I have studied started with someone asking an inconvenient question. Curiosity is not a personality trait, it is a discipline. It's one of the…
Being Unique
Comfort today, regret tomorrow. "Good enough" is a trap dressed up as a compliment. Two new companion books put thirty years of insight into what makes innovative teams…
Mediocrity
Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine months into the year I predicted. Leadership today isn't about what you chase. It's about what…
2026 Principles
