When I read the titles of those thought leadership pieces on LinkedIn so passionately written about ‘the next nexus of branding’ and such, i feel like I’m not really a part of this industry. I don’t ever want to read that muck, I don’t ever want to write that muck, and I don’t ever want to talk such muck in a job interview, new biz pitch, or holiday party. Am I in the wrong business?

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Nah, u just allergic to bullshiet

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All of that is nonsense. Keep focusing on doing good work, mentoring your junior creatives, and enjoying life outside the office.

I cannot for the life of me understand why it became acceptable to have pseudo-revelatory flexes on a professional platform. LinkedIn should be for getting jobs, not waxing poetic.

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I agree. It’s all just self promotion, I rarely read any of it.

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It’s the virtue signaling of the business world.

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I find most of those “thought leadership” pieces are actually the same thing over and over again. No original thoughts to be found.

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It used to be that doing something worthy was the path to recognition. “Doing something” was actually part of the criteria. Now, you can skip any doing part whatsoever and just park your ass in the realm of prediction, hypothesis, theory, and ‘data’. It’s less work, a safer bet, and the pay is probably better🙃

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