Jimism #007: Category Blur
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…
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Nope. I won't be trying Facebook Muse.
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…
Innovation Is Rebellion in Action
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
The Future, Sector by Sector — Consumer Products: Your Product’s Shelf Life Just Became a Sprint
Stop two on this tour: consumerproducts.jimcarroll.com is live, with a companion PDF — The Future of Consumer Products. Consumer products has always lived in a collision…
Consumer & Food
The 26 Principles, Revisited — #1: Temporal Literacy — What I Said, and What’s Actually Happening
Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine months into the year I predicted. Stop judging the speed of your future by the slow pace of…
2026 Principles
Jimism #006: Digital Twin Thinking
What if you could make the mistake before you actually made it? That's increasingly possible. I call the mindset behind it Digital Twin Thinking. A digital twin is a…
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Arriving With Everyone Else Means Arriving Too Late
The highway is full because everyone took the obvious route at the obvious time. Being early and being different are almost the same skill. That is the whole argument…
Being Unique
The Future, Sector by Sector — Construction & Infrastructure: The Job Site Just Got a Brain
Next up in my sector-by-sector tour of where the world is actually headed: construction.jimcarroll.com is live, with a companion PDF — The Future of Construction &…
Construction & Infrastructure
You Can't Innovate With a Mediocre Mindset
Same brain. Different choice. A bigger future. Innovation has never been about talent so much as mindset. Embracing Mediocrity and Escaping Mediocrity are companion…
Mediocrity
The 26 Principles, Revisited: A Nine-Month Reality Check
A companion series to the original 26 Principles of Exponential Growth — checking my own math, principle by principle, nine months in. Nine months ago, I sat down to…
2026 Principles
Jimism #005: Yesterday's Logic
One of the most dangerous things in business is an assumption that used to be correct. That's Yesterday's Logic. It happens when we keep making decisions based on rules…
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Same Team. Different Tomorrow.
Same meetings, same people, same stuff, or new ideas, real progress, let's go. The difference is one decision away. Two new companion books, Embracing Mediocrity and…
Mediocrity