Three easy steps to become a thought leader:
- Have a thought. You can’t be a thought leader without a thought. Have a point of view about everything, be opinionated.
- Share your thought. It’s all very good to have a thought but it is quite useless unless you share it. To be a leader assumes you have followers. You can’t have followers if no one knows what your thoughts are. It’s easy to share. Share more at workplace, be a node of reference, start a blog, don’t pass on an opportunity to present, be available, be visible.
- Make sense. It is good to have a thought and to share it with others. But ultimately it needs to make sense and resonate with others. Otherwise you are just opinionated. This is the toughest part of being a thought leader.
So there you go… becoming a thought leader in three easy steps.
So are thought leaders, people who spend time to think and strategize. Or is it about how people should do their job–the "Let me tell you."
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