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Leadership,

Thought Leaders Usually Aren’t

Summer time is here, so I’m recycling some of my favorite posts from past years. This one was especially fun to write because I was on a roll — or rather, on a rant! So I’m reposting this for your summer reading amusement:

Please don’t call me a thought leader. Last week I had coffee with an acquaintance who used the phrase to describe me. He meant it as a compliment — and I took it as such. But I still corrected him.

“No,” I insisted, “I’m not a thought leader. Please don’t call me that. It’s an overused term …