Thought Leadership

After a thorough scrubbing, you still have 177 clubs to crash. Many shops no longer assign a job slot to somebody that does nothing but manage contributions. The trend: it's a shared duty.

Beyond the challenge of placing the profile itself, I'm concerned about the bias toward superstar CEOs and the relative lack of opportunity for the up-and-comers. Perhaps it's that every CEO has an origin story and exciting ambitions. That said, let's meet these 15 folks who make CEOs look good.

Here's a cheat sheet with 10 podcasts that offer advice to aspiring leaders. Yes on the contact info. No audience sizes, however -- it's pretty much impossible to obtain that. Most of the podcasters have books and seminars to sell. You'll find HBR in there... the only publication in the list. This…

Which podcasts do entrepreneurs really listen to? The entrepreneurs that have the big startup ideas? This cheat sheet is where one starts. Don't be fooled by the TechCrunch Startup News "podcast," because all it is is an AI voice-synthesized audio file of a story that ran as a tech article -- it's…

Here’s a cheat sheet on whom to approach and pitch in selected Tier 1 event operations, updated from the Jan. 2024 version. Unlike reporters, event influencers have no content to review.

This cheat sheet focuses on who covers CTOs and the problems that they face. It doesn’t focus on job changes, e.g who was hired in inside the DC beltway.

This cheat sheet is unusual for SWMS. It comprises non-traditional targets -- podcasters and newsletter authors. It mixes of entrepreneurial behavior and the future of work. It's a bit here and there. Hopefully it will open a backdoor along your path to placement. ChatGPT-4 and DALL·E contributed…