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Sync or Sink: Navigating the Organizational Politics of Thought Leadership

Insights, Thought leadership strategy / Bob Buday

Internal skepticism, resistance and ownership conflicts are the biggest challenges in our field today. Viewing thought leadership as vital today, a company hires someone to launch a thought leadership group or turn around one viewed as ineffective. The excitement is as high as the expectations. However, months or even a year goes by and there’s […]

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Why Every Thought Leadership Professional Must be a Content Connoisseur

Compelling content, Insights / budaytlp

Like wine connoisseurs who understand how soil and climate can help create a great wine, thought leadership connoisseurs know how compelling content gets made. By Bob Buday Running a thought leadership group is starting to become a prestigious job. It’s also a precarious one, given the average investment B2B companies make (from our 2022 research,

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Why You Must Shed Your Rodney Dangerfield Syndrome

Bob's Vault, Compelling content / Bob Buday

Many companies that bring thought leadership to market believe the content they produce doesn’t get much respect from the executives they’re trying to impress. Rodney Dangerfield had his shtick, and it brought millions of laughs over an illustrious career. The self-deprecating comedic genius, with his bulging eyes roving and his nervous hands tie tightening, was famous for

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In Praise of “Small” (But Deep) Content

Bob's Vault, Compelling content, Marketing campaigns / Bob Buday

One keystone document can provide the core argument for articles, white papers, long blog posts and other parts of your thought leadership marketing. Most thought leadership marketers know the benefits of putting an extensive, multifaceted marketing campaign behind a research study or a book. Over the last three decades, I’ve seen companies promote such “big”

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Looking Back (and Ahead) on 30 Years in Thought Leadership Marketing

Bob's Vault, Building capability, Thought leadership strategy / Bob Buday

What’s changed the most: widespread use, competition for mind share, and the ascendance of R&D and new distribution channels. This June I celebrated my 30th year in thought leadership marketing. I didn’t know that was the name of this field I had entered back in 1987, when I left the world of business journalism to run

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Thought Leadership Defined (in a Useful Way)

Bob's Vault, Thought leadership strategy / Bob Buday

Thought leadership is the prestige that an individual or organization achieves after developing, delivering and marketing superior expertise that solves a significant problem. With so many marketers exhorting companies to become thought leaders in their domains, many people in those firms are asking a simple question: “What is thought leadership? What are we talking about?” Here’s how we define it:

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