October 2014
In this edition of Thoughts on Thought Leadership, we present tools and advice that you can use to create thought-leading content. If you've read many of the multitudinous blog posts, articles and books that have been published on thought leadership in the last couple of years, you may have noticed they are generally long on how to market it, and short on how to create it in the first place. We never have been. We hope you find these useful.
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Getting the structure of a thought leadership piece right can consume a lot of time and effort if you don't begin with a framework or template. Here is our seven-step framework, the major sections and their approximate proportions. 


Multiple calls, rejected drafts, endless rewrites, spiraling costs, unhappy subject matter experts-such is life for many marketing heads and directors of editorial when they try to have ghostwriters produce thought leadership content for professional services firms. Want to exit this circle of disappointment? The way out is right here.

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"No one reads long articles anymore" is a popular refrain in the social media age. But is it right? And if not, how long should thought leadership content be? Bloom Group partner Bob Buday argues that question is easily answered, but it's not as important as how many articles should we be producing. And in that regard less is more, as you can read here.


How much should you tell readers about your proprietary techniques in your thought leadership content? Some professionals fear that describing their methodology too precisely would equip the reader to do it himself. And then why would they or their firm be needed? This is wrong-headed. Holding back on what you know, in particular what you know better than your competitors, is a mistake. Bloom Group partner Tim Parker explains why here.

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Mighty Midsized Companies: How Leaders Overcome 7 Silent Growth Killers

Rob Sher is a prominent coach to CEOs of midsized companies. His new book on how to grow them - and how to avoid growth's pitfalls - was published in early September. Within a few weeks it received scores of overwhelmingly positive reviews on Amazon.com, here. The Bloom Group helped Sher structure and publish his book.

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Life Sciences And Taxes: The Elephant In The Room

Last year, the life sciences market was marked by M&As intended to lower taxes through corporate inversion. Barbara Ryan, a Managing Director at FTI Consulting, led a panel on the subject, published in FTI Journal, here, and in September the Bloom Group helped her place an article in Life Science Leader, here, about taxes and the life sciences boom. 


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Mark Fish is a Managing Director at FTI Consulting with 24 years in the healthcare industry. In the last four he has seen a tectonic shift in the healthcare landscape. In May 2014, Mark wrote an article detailing how providers need to remake themselves to cope with the change. In September 2014, we helped him publish a version of his article in McKnight's, here.

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