Thought leadership

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Your new competitor: Netflix

By Andrew Smith 06/09/2025

Part 3 Welcome to Human Work. A series about the changing nature of work today. Many a modern conversation starts like this: “Do you prefer working in the office or…

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Written By Andrew Smith09/06/2025
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Painkillers or vitamins – what do you sell?

By Tony Hallett 06/09/2025

The internet is thick with business guru after business guru telling you to sell painkillers rather than vitamins. What does that mean? Well, the theory is that we all know…

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Written By Tony Hallett09/06/2025
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Companies are suffering a ‘psychic energy deficit’

By Andrew Smith 05/09/2025

Companies are suffering from a slump in discretionary energy: energy that workers freely gave at work. These are the moments of ideation, fun, innovation, insight, vigour and enthusiasm that once…

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Written By Andrew Smith09/05/2025
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Dealing with elephants – in rooms, offices, at home, everywhere

By Andrew Smith 04/30/2025

What do we do when there’s a big, upsetting thing that nobody wants to talk about? People have different approaches, but for much of the corporate world, the answer is often…

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Written By Andrew Smith30/04/2025
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Content leaders – now is not the time to bury your head in the sand

By Tony Hallett 04/04/2025

I’ve had several conversations in the past few weeks with contacts at large, US-headquartered, global companies and the conversation always turned to whether (or not) they speak internally about the…

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Written By Tony Hallett04/04/2025
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It’s 2025! Time to refresh, reboot and rethink your thought leadership. 

By Andrew Smith 02/06/2025

Terrified of tariffs? Scared of sanctions? Antsy about AI? Mulling mergers? Rueful of regulation? Edgy about your ESG and DEI positions? The world has changed. You need to refresh your…

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Written By Andrew Smith06/02/2025
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5 warning signs your large content programme is going to fail

By Becky Thompson 11/04/2024

One way to get large partner content programmes right is to consider the ways they can go wrong. Just to say it up front… my editor told me I should…

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Written By Becky Thompson04/11/2024
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Your customer case study can open the door to much more

By Becky Thompson 10/28/2024

This is the latest in my series about my experiences managing large channel marketing content programmes. This time, I look at how partners can use customer stories as the launchpad…

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Written By Becky Thompson28/10/2024
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The biggest partners in tech and their content needs

By Becky Thompson 10/16/2024

Plenty of our clients have in-house content teams or even whole units dedicated to thought leadership, featuring some of the smartest people around. So why do they need us? In…

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Written By Becky Thompson16/10/2024
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Speaking to your customers? No alarms and no surprises

By Becky Thompson 10/10/2024

This is part of a series of posts where I talk about my experiences managing large channel marketing content programmes. This time I look at how to keep customers at…

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Written By Becky Thompson10/10/2024
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Why a defined process gets the best content results

By Becky Thompson 10/03/2024

This is part of a series of articles where I talk about my experiences managing large channel marketing content programmes. This time I look at why having a clear process…

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Written By Becky Thompson03/10/2024
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Small partner, big ambition – how I show what’s possible

By Becky Thompson 09/25/2024

This is part of a series of posts where I talk about my experiences managing large channel marketing content programmes. This time I look at what smaller channel partners can…

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Written By Becky Thompson25/09/2024
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