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Most executives I talk to aren't absent from LinkedIn because they…
Most executives I talk to aren't absent from LinkedIn because they have nothing to say. They're absent because the model we built for thought leadership was designed around marketers, not operators. We took people who run companies, manage teams, and make decisions under pressure every day, and we handed them a blank document and said "write." That's not a content problem. That's a workflow mismatch. The real reason executive voices are missing from most company content isn't imposter syndrome or ego. It's that nobody structured the extraction correctly. The knowledge is there. The opinions are there. The experience is absolutely there. What's missing is a way to get it out that doesn't tax the executive with becoming a writer. Here's where I'd push back on the conventional take though: some people genuinely believe that if an executive didn't write it themselves, it isn't authentic. That the friction is actually the point. That earning your audience requires hours at a keyboard. I don't sit well beyond that view at all. A surgeon's insight isn't less valid because a journalist shaped it into an article. A CEO's read on market conditions doesn't lose credibility because a structured process helped get it out of their head and into a post. The question I keep coming back to is this: does authenticity live in the production process, or in the actual substance of what's being said? Because if it's the former, most executives will never show up consistently, and their audiences lose access to knowledge that's genuinely useful. If it's the latter, the only thing that matters is whether the insight is real and whether the voice still sounds like the person. Where do you land on this? Is executive-assisted content still authentic, or does the process of getting it out change what it is?
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