Thought leadership : prompting businesses to think and learn / Laurie Young.

What on earth is Thought Leadership? Who has used it before? Thought leadership in business history Where does Thought Leadership come from? Components of success and failure Communicating and disseminating Thought Leadership Thought Leadership An evolving discipline

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-321) and index.

" Thought leadership consists of companies establishing a relationship with and delivering something of value to their customers that aligns with their brand and company value. In the process they go beyond merely selling a product or service and establish their brand and company as the expert in that field and differentiate themself from competitors. Laurie Young focuses on the tools, techniques and effects of thought leadership as a marketing principle. His book Thought Leadership provides a topical analysis of what thought leadership is, how it works, how to create a thought leadership strategy and what the results are likely to be. Analyzing both the strengths and weaknesses of this core marketing technique, Young provides marketing strategists with the tools and knowledge required to fully take advantage of this often mysterious, but always effective marketing technique"--

"Thought Leadership is a powerful business tool used by some of the world's leading organisations. It is used extensively in the professions and technology industries. Some budgets for it are bigger than those for global advertising. It has been used by famous individuals to create some of the world's leading advisory businesses, but how do they achieve that position? Thought Leadership is the first book to critically evaluate thought leadership as a serious professional discipline and business tool, exploring how it works, how to create a thought leadership strategy, and the potentially vast rewards of doing so. Laurie Young provides business leaders, senior marketers, individual advisors and functional specialists with the tools and knowledge required to fully exploit the intricacies of this mysterious and often underused, but highly effective, business tool"--