thought leader
an innovative person within a specific field or industry
TRANSLATION
thought leader = Vordenker, Visionär --- GOOGLE INDEX thought leader: approximately 1,500,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Matt Stoller is a blogger and THOUGHT LEADER in the Internet wing of the progressive political movement.
(www.politico.com)
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"Dr. Allan Friedman is one of the THOUGHT LEADERS in the field of neuro-oncology," said Dr. Otis Brawley, the top doctor at the American Cancer Society. An internationally known tumor and vascular surgeon, he is responsible for more than 90 percent of tumor resections and biopsies at Duke University Hospital.
(Associated Press)
(www.politico.com)
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"Dr. Allan Friedman is one of the THOUGHT LEADERS in the field of neuro-oncology," said Dr. Otis Brawley, the top doctor at the American Cancer Society. An internationally known tumor and vascular surgeon, he is responsible for more than 90 percent of tumor resections and biopsies at Duke University Hospital.
(Associated Press)
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thought leader
noun phrase
- a person who is considered an innovative thinker in a specific field or industry
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WORD ORIGIN
Thought leader is a buzzword or jargon used to describe a futurist or person who is recognised among his peers and mentors for innovative ideas and demonstrates the confidence to promote or share those ideas as actionable insights.
Thought leadership is an increasingly vital driver of business success. Its aim is to engage people with companies through innovative ideas. Joel Kurtzman, editor-in-chief of the magazine Strategy & Business, first used the term in 1994. He used it to describe interview subjects for the magazine who had contributed new thoughts to business.
Among the first thought leaders were British management thinker Charles Handy, Stanford economist Paul Romer, Mitsubishi president Minoru Makihara, and University of Michigan strategist C.K. Prahalad and his co-author, Gary Hamel, a professor at the London Business School. Since that time, the term has spread from business to other disciplines and has come to mean someone who enlivens old processes with new ideas. As a result, there are thought leaders in the sciences, humanities and even in government.
At professional services firms, such as consultancies and accounting firms, thought leadership has gone from the quest to discover new innovative ideas for discussion with clients, to the repackaging and publishing of old ideas. As a result, the term has been somewhat diluted.
(sources: adapted from Wikipedia)
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SYNONYMS
authority, brain trust, doyen, maven, forward thinker, pundit
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"We would need a well-known thought leader to kick-off the conference."
noun phrase
- a person who is considered an innovative thinker in a specific field or industry
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WORD ORIGIN
Thought leader is a buzzword or jargon used to describe a futurist or person who is recognised among his peers and mentors for innovative ideas and demonstrates the confidence to promote or share those ideas as actionable insights.
Thought leadership is an increasingly vital driver of business success. Its aim is to engage people with companies through innovative ideas. Joel Kurtzman, editor-in-chief of the magazine Strategy & Business, first used the term in 1994. He used it to describe interview subjects for the magazine who had contributed new thoughts to business.
Among the first thought leaders were British management thinker Charles Handy, Stanford economist Paul Romer, Mitsubishi president Minoru Makihara, and University of Michigan strategist C.K. Prahalad and his co-author, Gary Hamel, a professor at the London Business School. Since that time, the term has spread from business to other disciplines and has come to mean someone who enlivens old processes with new ideas. As a result, there are thought leaders in the sciences, humanities and even in government.
At professional services firms, such as consultancies and accounting firms, thought leadership has gone from the quest to discover new innovative ideas for discussion with clients, to the repackaging and publishing of old ideas. As a result, the term has been somewhat diluted.
(sources: adapted from Wikipedia)
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SYNONYMS
authority, brain trust, doyen, maven, forward thinker, pundit
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"We would need a well-known thought leader to kick-off the conference."
