Unshackle Your Corporate Thought Leaders. Please!
 I don’t know a corporation today that doesn’t have problems. We’re all familiar with increasing pressures, complexity and today’s warp speed of change. There are ever-greater challenges to solve at all levels in organizations, and those challenges are keeping many of us up at night. One piece of the solution is to unshackle the unrecognized thought leaders buried within your organization.
This is part two in a series sharing my experience of working with people I call thought leaders. To help corporations understand and develop the untapped pool of talent they already have in-house.
What Is a Thought Leader?
If you google the term, there are lots of articles about how to become a thought leader. Be creative and blog more seem to be the main recommendations, with one blogger suggesting that having a lot of money helps. But all that is, at best, putting the cart before the horse.
Because in my experience, thought leaders are born, not made. They have an innate ability – as though it’s written in their genes – to think differently. To see solutions where others see only a tangle of problems. To pull disparate ideas and concepts together and fashion a new whole. To see new possibilities.
This is what thought leaders – as I define them – do. <more>
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