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How to Avoid Driving Away Your Talented Editors

Internal editors are essential to B2B companies that want to be seen as thought leaders. These firms shouldn’t outsource all their content development (although we’ll gladly accept the work). They need a solid in-house staff, too. But I’ve heard a lot lately about editors and ghostwriters in B2B companies who are tremendously overworked and enormously […]

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Why Thought Leadership Must Fuel Service Innovation

Everyone In our profession knows the three-word phrase “thought leadership marketing.” It rolls off the tongue like a memorable pop song. But nobody says the phrase “thought leadership service innovation.” “Huh?” you might be asking. What on earth am I talking about? Well, remember those four words. They will roll off the tongues of executives

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It’s Way Past Time to Rethink the Digital Thought Leadership Journal

By Alan Alper and Bob Buday The thought leadership journal has been a staple of the thought leadership marketing mix for B2B firms for at least 60 years, ever since McKinsey & Company introduced McKinsey Quarterly. A compendium of articles reflecting a firm’s best thinking at a moment in time, these journals have long provided

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ETL 22: Mara Stefan on Powering Manpower’s Data-Driven Insights

Mara Stefan is Vice President of Global Insights at Manpower Group, a $20 billion talent services firm – one of the largest in the world. Over her 25-year career, Mara’s has done nearly everything in thought leadership, from working with executives and their organizations to create thought leadership content to developing and executing thought leadership

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‘Competing on Thought Leadership’ Wins 4 More Book Awards

“Competing on Thought Leadership,” Bob Buday’s book published in early 2022, is continuing to win awards and recognition. The book won in the public relations book category of the 2023 Independent Press Awards and was the winner of the business-general category of the 2023 National Indie Excellence Book Awards. “Competing on Thought Leadership” also was

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