💡Thursday Thought Leadership Challenge💡 Introduce your idea like it’s a participant in a Zoom call. You’ll be surprised at what you learn. Imagine we’re…
When someone announces that they are a thought leader — three questions *immediately* pop into my head: ❓”To whom?” ❓”For what topic?” ❓”When?” Because…
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…
The cartoon below was printed on *all* my calculus exams in high school. The hard work lies *between* the idea and the proof. We…