Linus Torvalds: Successful projects are 99% perspiration and 1% innovation

Re:Linus Torvalds: Successful projects are 99% perspiration ... by aaron-lebo on Thursday February 16, 2017 @08:56AM (#13659858)

'Thought leadership' is about being honest about what's happening and expressing this. Giving a voice to SMEs about what they're doing, why they're doing it, and where they think this will go; it is ideal Agile, constituting the combination of thoughts from technology, leadership and subject matter expertise. A credible message which parts on their own cannot communicate. Some organisations do this very well.

I don't want to be a dick but you've summed up what's wrong with 'thought leadership'. If thought leadership consists of a bunch of buzzwords that everyone else is using, you aren't a leader, you are a follower.

It's a business in and of itself; there's no correlation between 'thought leadership' and success. Of course the traveling preacher would want you to think there is.

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Re:Linus Torvalds: Successful projects are 99% perspiration ... by zhte415 on Sunday February 19, 2017 @02:50AM (#13678630)

You're not being a dick, I completely concur. HN itself is an example of what thought leadership can be, but would hate to be labeled with the tainted brush the term has come to stain.

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