From the course: Organizational Thought Leadership
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Fostering peer networks to support your efforts
From the course: Organizational Thought Leadership
Fostering peer networks to support your efforts
- The role of thought leader can often be a lonely one. As individuals set out to share their ideas, establish their credibility, and build their followers without much day-to-day support from the organization or those around them. But it doesn't have to be this way. One leader that created a different model is Joe Galvin, the Chief Research Officer at Vistage. Vistage, founded in 1957, is a membership organization for CEOs, business owners, and executives of small to mid-size businesses. Based on his early career at the Gartner Group, Joe understood that the very best ideas come when you can bring together a diverse set of people in a peer network to explore and discuss in a structured setting. Once a week, Joe would gather his peers together to bat around, rethink and refine any content they were going to publish. But he shared with me that it wasn't just these structured settings that allowed them to regularly create…
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