They have authors who profess to be experts—because they did research and wrote up a book and published it.
Give me the practitioners, not the preachers. Or as Dan and Ian say for the Tropical MBA podcast (a glorious exception to my complaint), someone who is a practitioner-preacher. 50/50. Someone who has the experience and knows how to express it.
Someone who can communicate, like a preacher, and communicates actual, personal experience and lessons learned. That’s who I want to hear from.
I love Chris Williamson’s Modern Wisdom podcast. But he has too many preachers and too few practitioner-preachers. I’m listening to an episode now and as soon as I finish typing this rant I’m deleting the episode.