Consultant says we can be hurt by out susceptibility to being enchanted by people who excel at selling a vision but may also be incompetent
Peter Drucker, the first modern thought leader for careers and business, was a slow, thoughtful speaker with the ability to occasionally toss in crisp, memorable zingers before the term sound bites was a popular notion. But he was followed by a wave of consultants and motivational speakers – Tom Peters, Michael Hammer and Tony Robbins among them – who were known for their bombastic, spellbinding styles and entrenched our notion of what a thought leader should be.
“While there’s no doubt that slick marketing can be convincing, and that performative shows work well to connect with audiences, you don’t have to bend yourself to fit the mould. Your authentic, self-aligned brand of thought leadership will allow you to show up in a sustainable and empowered way,” she writes inSuccess is not about extroversion or introversion. Presence and charisma is part of the deal but more complicated than we think. Communication skills are, of course, necessary.
At the core, thought leaders simply need a clear conviction that something could be better, a commitment to working toward making things better and a genuine and generous desire to help others move forward. She highlights four qualities for achieving that: A willingness to embrace complexity; acknowledge uncertainty; be non-threatening, inclusive and collaborative; and rather than being fixed, be willing to continually evolve and improve.
She calls on thought leaders to identify and resist oversimplification in the information they are consuming and in the patterns of their own thinking. Identify what you would be inclined to believe on a topic and then, vitally, how you can move past such comfortable thinking. Notice when you have adopted a position too easily. Look beyond the obvious, digging deeper. But still keep in mind as your thinking becomes complicated that you must crystallize it into something workable.
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