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Leadership,

Please Don’t Call Me a Thought Leader

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 most people use to self-describe themselves so they can build a platform on Twitter or something like it. It’s the most overused phrase in our “leadership” culture.”

Since I was already on a rant, I continued with, “Besides, all those self-appointed thought leaders …

Random Thoughts,

Predictions for 2017

My 2016 predictions weren’t perfect, in part because they weren’t crazy enough. Who knew 2016 was going to turn out so looney? So here goes for 2017.

  • The big Silicon Valley news is that Twitter goes bankrupt because nobody wants to buy them. They announce the news on Twitter but it takes a few days for anybody to notice.
  • President Trump is outraged by the bankruptcy because his platform for saying ridiculous things is silenced. He asks Vladimir Putin to buy the company.
  • China continues to expand the illegal “islands” in the South China Sea by dumping all of the