Category Archives: Development support
How has the thought leadership skills portfolio evolved?
Your domain expertise continues to grow as you work with clients to solve problems. Getting [...]
Jobs to be done – sharing experience versus thought leadership
If you are a BBC fan, you have almost certainly come across the Great British [...]
Studying corporate reputation: an invitation
Corporate reputation has been important for a long time. The need to protect his company’s [...]
Finding the balance: corporate vs. personal reputation
What is the difference between corporate and individual reputation? Or perhaps a more appropriate question [...]
The power of a personal editorial calendar—and how to get started
Inertia is a powerful thing. It is what prevents us from getting started on anything. [...]
Thought leadership for retention marketing
It is generally accepted that it costs around five times more to attract a new [...]
Six essays from Karen Pierce that are relevant for thought leaders
Karen Pierce is an experienced executive coach based in Arizona, US. Her company’s focus is [...]
Leadership lessons from gardening
Nurturing is an important part of leadership, including thought leadership. However, it often goes unsung. [...]
Six reasons to engage on Goodreads
Whether you are an avid or would-be avid reader or an author in search of [...]
Using the Promotability Index to work on your self-development
Most of us know that we need to do some work on our self-development. However, [...]
Making the most of the time: scheduling meetings more seamlessly
When you’re working on multiple projects across several time zones, scheduling meetings can be time-consuming, [...]
Erin Meyer’s The Culture Map: takeaways for thought leaders and marketers
The business world is becoming increasingly global. We are all expected to work with colleagues, [...]
Lessons on emotional connections from Adam Driver’s Arts in the Armed Forces
Increasingly, we are becoming aware that emotional intelligence is crucial for marketers and thought [...]
What thought leaders can learn from seeds
Seeds are not an obvious inspiration for thought leadership. Thor Hanson’s The Triumph of Seeds [...]
Using tools to improve your reading effectiveness
As an adult, it is easy to forget about basic skills such as how to [...]
Growth mindset for thought leaders: Carol Dweck’s Power of Yet
Professor Carol Dweck is a researcher at the University of Stanford who studies what she [...]
Using Myers-Briggs Type Indicators to define your thought leadership development path
One of the most important aspects of thought leadership—indeed, of any kind of leadership—is authenticity. [...]
Six Hats thinking for thought leadership
Edward de Bono first put forward his idea about six ‘thinking hats’ in 1985. The [...]
Using the message triangle for greater clarity
Do you sometimes feel that you are struggling to get your point across effectively? Do [...]
Bringing your digital footprinting toolkit up to date
Your digital footprint is the sum of your internet presence, including social media, blogs, comments, [...]
Moving the goalposts: from SMART to FAST
Setting goals or targets are important for improving performance. This is true as much of [...]
Nurturing thought leadership routines that make an impact
How can you sustain thought leadership programmes that really deliver? Beyond vanity metrics, one that [...]
Geeks, thought leaders, and ideas: the rising passion for knowing stuff
July 13th every year marks Embrace Your Geekness Day. The sponsors have put this day forward [...]
Defining your expertise: the thought leadership challenge
One of the questions that we often hear is about how to identify your expertise, [...]
From good to great: Getting more from thought leadership
The thought leadership ‘space’ is becoming increasingly crowded. More and more companies have come to [...]
Filtering ideas – the constructive pushback
IT helpdesks get a bad press. The phrase ‘Have you tried switching it off and [...]
Don’t let measurement get in the way of good conversations
I’ll confess, this idea has been triggered by Jack Welch’s Go Ahead, Talk About Politics at [...]
Why you should never be too busy to learn
For years, being busy has been a badge of honour among senior executives and managers. [...]
Allocating your energy
One of the questions which often arises, especially from those new to thought leadership, is [...]
Beyond content: the increasing role of “idea magnets”
One change which we’re all seeing to some extent is perhaps an increasing recognition that [...]
Kanban for thought leadership
You may have heard of kanban. It’s a Japanese word meaning ‘signal card’, made famous [...]
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