When you want to maximise your impact as a thought leader, it can feel like you need to try and do everything. To be on every social media platform, to be out speaking, to be sending constant emails, to be blogging, to be networking, to be doing weekly webinars, to be pitching yourself to media… […]
Many thought leaders at the early stages of their journey are scared to start sharing their thinking. You might be a big-thinking, purpose-driven expert who knows their stuff and wants to help more people by sharing what you know, but it can be intimidating to bring forward new solutions, or a less-than-mainstream perspective to a […]
Sometimes it can feel like the world is pretty awful. At least, that’s what the barrage of bad news on social media would have us believe. And in some ways, they’re not wrong – we DO have some massive challenges facing us, as individuals, as organisations, as countries, and as a world. But we believe […]
So you’ve got a great idea – awesome! It might be a model, a framework, a series of principles, or just a new way of doing something that you want to get out there. You’d like to share it – to lead with your thinking – in the hopes that you can both help more […]
Thought leadership is, by definition, leading with your thinking. But what if your thinking needs to change? In her book Thinking 101, Professor Woo-Kyoung Ahn talks about various cognitive biases that cause us problems in our daily lives. From thinking that we’re better at something than we actually are to our fear of loss leading […]
You’re right in assuming that writing a book is a big commitment. Especially when you’re stuck at the bottom of the mountain looking up. It can look daunting, and it’s tempting to quit before you’ve even got started. However, in our years of experience we’ve seen countless clients write incredible books with a few solid […]
People tend to make thought leadership more complicated than it needs to be. While it can feel like it takes a lot of components to build successful thought leadership, it mostly comes down to four. In our experience, all you need to have a greater impact and gain a strategic advantage with your thought leadership […]
Sometimes, even people with the greatest ideas fall short because they don’t take the time to prepare and think deeply. A lot of people don’t test their ideas before sharing them widely, or make no effort to challenge their ideas in order to make them as robust as possible. That got the Intelligent Ink team […]
As a business owner, a consultant, or an innovator, there’s a change you want to see in our world. Your great work should be about making that change happen. But in order to create changes and innovation in your industry, you need to be heard above your competitors – and to do that, you need […]
If there’s one thing that successful thought leadership is built on, it’s consistency. Thought leadership requires habitual work and thinking – because it’s a marathon and not a sprint. That’s why making healthy habits that embed thought leadership in your work and day-to-day life is critical. When we thought about some of the habits it […]