Futurist Jim Carroll"To move fast, you don't need more gas. You need less drag." - Futurist Jim Carroll
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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing his end-of-2025 / introduction-to-2026 series, 26 Principles for 2026. You can follow along at 2026.jimcarroll.com. He welcomes your comments.
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Get rid of the anchors that are keeping you back. The weights that are holding you down. The chains that bind you to yesterday. The barriers that block your way.
And the things that are slowing you down.
We are on Day 11. You've committed to connecting externally for speed (Day 10). Now you must look inside and confront the greatest enemy of internal velocity: complexity.
Your future depends on the idea of Radical Subtraction. It might not make sense, but to move faster in our exponential world, you need to stop adding things and take things away.
In our old, slow, linear world, we solved problems by adding. If there was a risk, we added a compliance step. If there was miscommunication, we added a meeting to fix it. If there was a new opportunity, we added a committee. If there were a disruption, we would develop a strategy to deal with it. Over time, this addition was seen as sophistication and control.
We added things to try to deal with the complexity the world was throwing at us.
But here's the thing - in an exponential world, this accumulated complexity is organizational cholesterol. It clogs the arteries of decision-making. Every extra approval layer, every redundant report, and every "alignment meeting" slows down your Execution Velocity (Day 8) and makes it impossible to achieve a Moonshot (Day 9).
I've long talked about this from the stage as the accumulation of 'organizational sclerosis.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVgslECVwKw&t=2s
It's clogging up your future, slowing you down, killing your initiative. What is it? It's the condition where your arteries of creativity and initiative become clogged because everyone keeps doing things - even though no one remembers why they are doing them. It’s not just annoying; it’s a health hazard for your business that blocks the flow of new ideas.
And here's the thing - you cannot add your way to agility. When the world speeds up, your internal systems must simplify.
Here's why...
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Futurist Jim Carroll has long been intensely frustrated with bureaucracy and organizational sclerosis - with that, perhaps, being the reason why he has worked as a solo entrepreneur for 35 years!
**#Velocity** **#Subtraction** **#Simplicity** **#Agility** **#Speed** **#Focus** **#Innovation** **#Leadership** **#Future** **#Execution**
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Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/12/decoding-tomorrow-mastering-2026-11-to-move-fast-you-dont-need-more-gas-you-need-less-drag/
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