Even worse, many large companies now monitor employee LinkedIn activity as a measure of "market eminence" and "thought leadership" for performance reviews and p

Even worse, many large companies now monitor employee LinkedIn activity as a measure of "market eminence" and "thought leadership" for performance reviews and promotions. Like everything else, it gets distilled down to a single metric like activity count. Which is why you see so many people sharing the same articles with a comment like "Really good perspective Joe, could not agree more". Do that a few times per week and you are demonstrating serious thought leadership to your management, as opposed to doing something like creating and publishing original content.