When someone announces that they are a thought leader — three questions *immediately* pop into my head: ❓”To whom?” ❓”For what topic?” ❓”When?” Because…
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These are posts from Bill Sherman for Organizational Thought Leadership.
It’s hard to speak the difficult truth. It’s sooooo much easier to stay silent. I’ve spent my adult life learning how to speak more…
Thursday challenge: Shine a spotlight on others’ insights💡. Think of a good idea you recently encountered at work. How can you help it make…
What does metaverse, blockchain, or web3 mean for thought leadership deployment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. But that shoulder shrug tells me it’s a question worth asking, even…
A lot of thought leadership conversations sound like that scene in Jaws 🦈: “We’re gonna need a bigger boat.” Except it plays out something…
There’s a continuum between “trade secret” and open-source. And I put thought leadership closer to the #opensource side of the continuum. 💡Ideas have a network effect….
Can you distill your best ideas down into a simple question? NASA can. They excel at it. Many of NASA’s most amazing ideas and…
So, I’ve got a question (help, please?). What’s a good way to explain the difference between a subject matter expert (SME) and a thought…
Don’t ask your audience to make sense of your messy ideas. It’s your responsibility to distill the ideas down. I don’t want to go…
Serendipity ≠ Strategy Many people first stumble into thought leadership through serendipity. 📝 Write an article 🎙️ Give a talk/speech 📊 Create a whitepaper…