Leveraging Thought Leadership

The Trusted Advisor: How a Wisdom Book Became Business Language | Charlie Green| 744

Publishers turned it down. They said there was no data and no market for a "wisdom book." Twenty-five years and roughly 700,000 copies later, The Trusted Advisor is still

Why Focus Is a Team Problem, Not a Personal One | Shawn Vanderhoven | 743

A leader stands up in the middle of a 200-person workshop, slams his hand on the table, and says out loud what everyone in the room is feeling: I can't do great work here

How to Scale Executive Coaching Across an Entire Organization | Billy Hoogterp | 742

Ask professionals at the world's biggest companies whether they have a plan for their own learning and growth, and Bill Hoogterp says the answer is almost never yes. He b

How to Stand Out When AI Makes Content a Commodity | Jack Myers | 741

What if the one thing you've spent your career building, your expertise, is about to become the least valuable thing you own? In this episode of Leveraging Thought Lead

Building Trust Between Humans and AI in R&D| Jayshree Seth| 740

What does it take for a corporate scientist with zero direct reports to land on a list dominated by business school professors and bestselling authors? That's the questio

Why Your Book's ROI Isn't Book Sales | Zach Kristensen | 739

Here's an uncomfortable truth for anyone thinking about writing a book: the profit from the book itself is usually a rounding error. The real return shows up somewhere el

Translating Academic Research Into Real Business Impact | Nathan Bennett | 738

What actually happens when academic research meets the boardroom?    Peter Winick sits down with Nate Bennett — professor of management and faculty director of the Execut

Leading Through Uncertainty: What Crisis Really Reveals | Tom Kolditz & Mariana Khomitska | 737

What separates a leader from someone who just holds a title? This episode goes looking for the answer with two people who've watched that question get answered under re

Rivers, Rocks, and Rubies: A New Career Model | Dan Pontefract | 736

Here's an uncomfortable question: if you replaced "Gen X" with a racial or ethnic label in a hiring conversation, would anyone tolerate it?    Dan Pontefract — leadership

How Career Pivots Really Happen | Mary Olson-Menzel | 735

What does it actually take to build a coaching methodology that thousands of people rely on? According to Mary Olson-Menzel, Founder and CEO of MVP Executive Developm

The Difference Between Opinion and Real Thought Leadership | Lisa Bodell | 734

She was skeptical about writing a book for years. Not because she lacked ideas — because she'd watched too many people write books for their ego rather than for their rea

Why Personal Branding Isn't About You At All | Vanessa Errecarte | 733

"Personal brand" might be the most cringe-inducing phrase in business vocabulary. Say it out loud to a room of accomplished professionals and watch the shoulders tense —

Turning Unpredictable Referrals Into a Predictable Pipeline | Mark McIntosh | 732

Every founder-led advisory firm knows the feeling: business comes in waves. Referrals and word-of-mouth are lovely — until the pipeline goes quiet for three months and no

The Business Case for Giving Your Best Ideas Away | Dr. Ivan Misner | 731

"We hated your books." That's what a European competitor once admitted to Ivan Misner — years after trying to build a rival networking organization and watching his own m

The Business Model Behind a Financial Movement | Carrie Joy Grimes | 730

Here's an uncomfortable truth: most people will tell a total stranger about their weird rash before they'll tell their best friend how much debt they're carrying. That co

Turn Podcast Appearances Into a Referral Flywheel | Dustin Riechmann | 729

Book the podcast. Do the interview. Move on to the next one. That's the default playbook for most podcast guests — and according to this week's guest, it's leaving most o

Building A Leadership Framework Backed By Data | Benjamin Granger | 728

Why do we size up a rude stranger in seconds and decide they don't belong in our "tribe"? Dr. Benjamin Granger has a term for it: the evolutionary hangover — his phras

Why Thought Leadership Needs Real Experience, Not Theory | John Winsor | 727

What happens when the person telling your success story wasn't actually in the room? That's the moment that pushed John Winsor — Founder and Chairman of Open Assembly,

Why Your Book Launch Is Just the Beginning | Sandy Smith | 726

You just spent two years writing a book. Now what? That's the question at the center of this conversation about book publicity, expectations, and the long game of buil

The Marketing Dilemma Every Author Faces | Rand Selig | 725

What happens when the metrics you were taught to chase — title, bonus, prestige — stop adding up to a life that feels good? In this episode, Peter Winick sits down wit