Peter WinickFounder and CEO @ Thought Leadership Leverage

What is Peter's Definition of a Thought Leader?

19 Sept 2019 · 1 min

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2 questions. One, what is your definition of thought leader? So a definition— there's a couple of definitions. So to me, there's really a continuum. There's subject matter expert, which is you've got— I was talking to a guy the other day who wasn't a fit, who's got some methodology for commercial real estate lead building. I'm like, that's not thought leader. That's domain matter expertise. And lots of people in that space care a lot about it, but not— so I think that thought leadership is that you're recognized not by yourself, But by others in the field and in the space, and you're adding to a conversation. So you're moving it to the next level. You— it's very rare that any of us are creating anything totally brand new from scratch, if we're actually honest. We're building on things. So I think that you're, you're adding to the conversation and adding to the dialogue of the function. Okay.