Two approaches to thought leadership
Think. Write. Lead. - Issue #103. There are two opposite approaches to thought leadership: the isolationist and the scientific. Most popular authors prefer the former.
Best-selling author, Robert Greene, says he doesn’t read popular non-fiction as to not contaminate his thinking.
When he writes a book, he wants ideas to come from his mind, not from something he read.
He prefers, instead, to research his books by reading history.
This is a similar take to David Meerman Scott, who I interviewed when researching The Solo…
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