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Organizing Brilliance: Creating a Thought Leadership Content Machine (Part 1)

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Creating a department of people who produce compelling content that demonstrates their firm’s expertise is no easy task, even for the biggest consulting firms, In just the last two years, we’ve been asked the same question by six very large B2B firms (two consulting, two IT services, one financial services and one software company): how […]

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What Holds Back Aspiring Thought Leaders

Bob's Vault, Compelling content / Bob Buday

Too much insecurity, impatience and arrogance can be corrosive to the process of developing a big idea. It will sound like circular logic, but it still needs to be said: Great thoughts are the foundation of highly successful thought leadership marketing campaigns. Yes, you need skillful and concerted marketing to distribute those great thoughts widely. But

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The Hidden Value of Thought Leadership

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If you hope to get the attention and budget approval of top management, talk about the value of thought leadership in their universal language: money. I know lots of people who, with varying degrees of success, are trying to get their boss behind thought leadership marketing and raise their organization’s investment in it. I can assure you the more successful

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What is Thought Leadership?

Bob's Vault, Compelling content, Thought leadership strategy / Bob Buday

By labeling any content as “thought leadership,” it can lull us into a false complacency – that anything we produce, no matter how little effort we put into it, is exceptional content. Like a lightning bolt, the 140-character-or-less insults point to an issue for all of us in this emerging discipline of thought leadership marketing:

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Ban all Blather

Bob's Vault, Compelling content / Bob Buday

The rhetoric of business is often pompous and befuddling. Don’t let this happen to you. Nice to see we’re not the only ones who complain about indecipherable business communications. Check out this Oct. 29 column by New York Times media critic David Carr about a CEO’s internal memo at magazine magnate Conde Nast (Vogue, The

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Thought Leadership Success Factor No. 4: A POV Champion

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When you place your bets on fewer but deeper points of view, you will soon need someone who’s responsible for the end-to-end process of developing and selling a big idea. In my last post I said that developing fewer but more substantive points of view (sometimes even just one) is much more likely to make

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