Thought Leadership

Thought leadership differs from traditional top-down leadership.

• It can be directed up as well as down or sideways.
• It has nothing to do with position or managing people.
• It is the basis of innovative change.
• It is egalitarian because it can shift rapidly from one person to another.
• It cannot be monopolized. It has nothing to do with climbing a hierarchy.
• It changes how people think, hence no action is necessarily implied.
• Implementation is a separate phase - a managerial undertaking.