Content curation can help thought leadership, but needs more too
Jay Palter aruges back against Eric Wittlake‘s post called "Three Reasons Content Curation is Overrated". He distinguishes the difference between curation and thought leadership and points out how the former can support the latter, but the former (curation) is not enough to solely establish thought leadership. Here's an excerpt from his article where he points out the distinguishing factors between simply curating and truly being a thought leader:
Thought leadership is about demonstrating clarity of vision and in order to establish it you need to create content that expresses that vision. But you also need to show that you can recognize that vision in others. To my mind, thought leaders both articulate their own vision and identify it and tease it out of other people’s work. It’s not an either/or proposition.