Jim Carroll

To really get ahead in 2026, you need to understand the trap of hubris and why your past success can be your biggest future liability.

It might not make sense, but to move faster in our exponential world, you need to stop adding things and start taking things away.

My message is consistent - your success comes from the reach of your collaborative knowledge networks. In an exponential economy, it now depends on the speed with which you can extend them and reach new ones.

Are you aiming high enough?

The sad truth is that in our new exponential world, speed is no longer a differentiator; it is the baseline requirement for existence.

If you are relying on what you already know, i.e, with your past degree, your decade of experience, to carry you through 2026, you are driving on fumes. Your battery is empty, your mind is out of gas, and you'll soon hit the limit of where you can go.