Discover · Filtered archive
JimIsms · 2026
11 posts · newest first
Jimism #010: Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast
I've used this phrase for years because it captures one of the biggest mistakes organizations make with innovation. They confuse ambition with implementation. Think Big. Start…
Jimism #009: Just-in-Time Knowledge
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 Knowledge…
Jimism #008: Change Muscle
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 you'd like…
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 destroying…
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 virtual…
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, beliefs…
Jimism #004: The Acceleration Gap
Change is no longer the problem. The problem is the growing gap between how fast the world changes and how fast an organization can respond to it. I call it The Acceleration Gap…
Jimism #003: The Governance of Speed
Are we moving fast enough? is now a governance question. For decades, boards were trained to ask sensible questions. Are we compliant? Are the controls working? Are we managing…
Jimism #002: The Half-Life of a Skill
Your expertise now has an expiry date. There was a time when you could learn a profession in your twenties, master it in your thirties and forties, and spend much of the rest of…
Jimism #001: The Attention Recession
When everyone is chasing attention, there is none. We spent years talking about the information explosion. We should have been talking about the attention implosion. AI has made…
Introducing "Jimisms": Ideas for What Comes Next
I've accumulated a lot of phrases over the years. Some started on a keynote stage. Some came out of a client conversation. Some emerged while I was trying to make sense of a trend…
From the archive to your stage
Twenty years of thinking, built for your room.
Every keynote draws on this archive and on fresh research into your industry.