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Keynote Case Study: Toronto Hydro — The Energy Future Was Arriving Faster Than Legacy Assumptions
Jim addressed Toronto Hydro leaders at a CEO Leadership Meeting on electrification, AI, battery storage, distributed energy and the leadership challenge of navigating an…
The Future Belongs to the Uniquely Curious
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 distraction. Read…
The 26 Principles, Revisited — #16: Scale Blindness — 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. Your brain is built for addition. The future is built on…
How Innovation Happens — Lesson #9: Fail Faster, Learn Faster
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 of…
Meetings Don't Create Momentum. Decisions Do.
Discuss. Review. Revise. Circle back. Another meeting. Sound familiar? Decisions, not discussions, are what actually move things forward. That's one of the sharper truths inside…
The 26 Principles, Revisited — #15: Escape Velocity — 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. Scale immediately or fail slowly. There is no middle ground. Day 15’s…
How Innovation Happens — Lesson #8: Kill Aggressive Indecision
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 of…
I Registered YottaBit.com 26 Years Ago. The Future Is Finally Catching Up - at the Yottabit.com Domain!
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 x 28…
From the Stage: What This Series Is About
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 are…
Be Curious. Full Stop.
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 core themes…
Make "Good Enough" the Enemy
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 and…
The 26 Principles, Revisited — #14: Hype Immunity — 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. Leadership today isn't about what you chase. It's about what you…
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