What Makes You Think Your White Paper Is Any Good?
After months of debate and discussion, your big new white paper is out. But is it really any good? How will you know? Hint: scorecards.
What Trump Can Teach Marketers About Thought Leadership
The snarky rejoinder: “You mean, at Trump University???” OK, now we’ve gotten the cheap laugh out of the way, let’s see what we’ve got.
4 Reasons Why Thought Leadership Projects Fall Flat
Because the competition for mind space is so acute, you must avoid the pitfalls discussed here. With this approach, you’ll convince readers that your insights have value, and that your thought leadership is worth following.
Where Thought Leadership Ideas Should Come From
There should be broad agreement about what thought leadership is and how it’s created (and, by the way, how it’s used).
Content Creation: 4 Reasons Why You Need a Fox, Not a Hedgehog
The British philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin created a stir in 1953 when he published an essay that classified various writers as either foxes—generalists, able to leap nimbly from one realm of knowledge to …
Is your strategic content on an assembly line or coming out of skunk works?
Imagine you’re in a luxury automobile factory, watching cars come together on the assembly line. But something strange is happening: several cars are being pulled off the line, and a crew is taking them apart and reassembling them so they start looking different from the others.