What is the job of a thought leader?

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What is the job of a thought leader? Gretzky is a retired Canadian hall-of-fame hockey player who once said, "A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." Valuable advice but overused, here in SoCal, to the point that it has become code for "trifler."                   

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Actually rather than Wayne Gretzky in So Cal I would think that there are dozens of boxes of little Lego's. A thought leader would have been steeped in the instruction set to build a Millennium Falcon from the little bricks accurately following the supplied directions.

When the directions ended up in the trash and the little blocks were disassembled and placed in a plastic zip lock bag it would be interesting to see if the same Millennium Falcon could be construed from the same inventory of plastic blocks.

Better yet it would be far more interesting to see something materialize with far more significant value constructed from the same inventory of little plastic blocks. Indeed that it did not even vaguely resemble the Millennium Falcon, but would have required a new set of instructions for someone without a Lego mentality to appropriately duplicate the new significant innovation if it were relegated back to the zip lock bag.

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