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It’s difficult being a thought leader.  It requires a lot of hard work and focus and creating content that has the potential to change peoples lives, enable organizations to operate more effectively or introduce a new way of thinking.  Especially when you as the author or thought leader know (from experience, intuition, etc.) that it [...]

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In speaking with a wide variety of authors and thought leaders lately it occurred to me that while every author clearly has content not every author has content that can evolve into a viable business.  The reviews may be off the charts, the feedback may be incredible but don’t allow that to cloud your judgment [...]

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Field of Dreams– Great Movie, Dumb Strategy

by peterwinick on January 27, 2011

I loved the movie Field of Dreams, it was well written and told an inspiring story.  But let’s face facts, it was a movie in the classic Hollywood style.  It was designed to make you feel good and deliver a message that “if you build it they will come” that tugged at your heart strings.  [...]

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Are you leaving money on the table?

by peterwinick on January 13, 2011

As an author or a thought leader there are many ways that you can and should offer your content to clients.  Assessment tools, training, consulting, speaking, products, e-learning programs, coaching the list is almost endless.  The tough part is being able to convert your content into the right modality at the right price point for [...]

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3 Challenges That Authors and Thought Leaders Face

by peterwinick on November 15, 2010

In the last two weeks I’ve interviewed a wide variety of authors and thought leaders to gain insight into what they struggle most with.  While the range of experience and expertise amongst the group was pretty wide what was most interesting is that the challenges they faced were pretty similar.  Their areas of focus and [...]

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Uncertainty is now permanent

by peterwinick on October 15, 2010

Last week I had the pleasure of seeing Jim Collins speak at Radio City Music Hall at the World Business Forum one  of the many points that he brought up was that we are now operating in a period of great uncertainty and that uncertainty is now the rule, not the exception.  While I don’t [...]

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The monologue is dead, it’s the age of the dialogue

by peterwinick on October 11, 2010

As an author or thought leader it used to be that you were viewed as the expert and you honed your craft, published your books, did some public speaking and attracted followers.  If your message was interesting, smart, innovative or engaging people listened and they followed.    And you wrote another book, spoke some more and [...]

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Marketing By Deepak- Interview 8/15/10

by peterwinick on August 15, 2010

Dgupta5150, Deepak Gupta LinkedIn, Marketing by Deepak Gupta, Tips by Deepak Gupta, Deepak Gupta social media, Deepak Gupta marketing via Enlightening Chat with Peter Winick. Enlightening Chat with Peter Winick Peter Winick and Richard Branson Today, I have the pleasure of connecting with Peter Winick, Founder and CEO at Winick Enterprises, Inc – Thought Leadership [...]

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A millimeter of progress or a mile?

by peterwinick on August 6, 2010

It seems like many of the thought leaders and authors I speak with are pulled in a million directions and have made a millimeter of progress in each. There’s also a group of them that have made a mile of progress in just a few.  I’ve spent some time thinking about the differences in these [...]

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Constantly Creating vs. Leveraging

by peterwinick on August 4, 2010

In most businesses the goal is to develop a product, service or solution that can be leveraged.  It’s not a very controversial topic, it’s pretty much how companies operate.  In the world of content it doesn’t always work that way and based on some of the work I’ve been doing over the last few months [...]

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