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Every year, CMOE sets out to find the Internet’s top leadership blogs. We rank the blogs by the total number of social shares that each one gets during a given period of time. This year, we collected data from March 11, 2017 through March 12, 2018 (just over 12 months).
We realize this method of ranking leadership blogs isn’t perfect, but we do believe that it’s a fairly objective approach.
We also recognize that we may unintentionally overlook some great leadership blogs during our search. We do our best to begin crunching the data using as many great leadership blogs as we can find. Please reach out to us if you have a leadership blog or know of one that you think we should consider in the future.
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We hope you find the list to be a useful resource for finding some of the top leadership blogs and top leadership articles. Please enjoy this year’s most socially shared leadership blogs!
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 | Most number of posts |
| Rank | Blog | # of Posts | Total Shares | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/ | 1,687 | 15,893 | ||||
| 4 | https://www.ccl.org/ | 779 | 67,712 | ||||
| 18 | https://www.leadershipnow.com/ | 635 | 18,515 | ||||
| 85 | https://www.clemmergroup.com/ | 532 | 1,451 | ||||
| 1 | https://leadershipfreak.blog/ | 391 | 117,564 | ||||
| 5 | https://michaelhyatt.com/ | 319 | 47,638 | ||||
| 33 | http://www.threestarleadership.com/ | 313 | 9,006 | ||||
| 46 | http://www.adrianswinscoe.com/ | 294 | 4,677 | ||||
| 9 | https://www.skipprichard.com/ | 258 | 38,777 | ||||
| 15 | https://leadchangegroup.com/ | 252 | 23,418 |
 | Least number of posts |
| Rank | Blog | # of Posts | Total Shares |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | http://orrinwoodwardblog.com/ | 11 | 5,645 |
| 74 | http://mitsloan.mit.edu/fellows/leadership-blog/ | 12 | 1,739 |
| 68 | http://www.burg.com/ | 13 | 2,117 |
| 66 | http://danhawkinsleadership.com/ | 14 | 2,353 |
| 25 | https://disneyinstitute.com/blog/ | 15 | 12,803 |
| 60 | http://chrisbrady.typepad.com/ | 16 | 2,833 |
| 95 | https://instituteformindfulleadership.org/ | 21 | 963 |
| 87 | http://www.terrystarbucker.com/ | 22 | 1,277 |
| 44 | https://www.torbenrick.eu/ | 23 | 4,825 |
| 14 | https://marlagottschalk.wordpress.com/ | 24 | 24,389 |
 | Most engagements on Facebook (combines likes, shares, comments) |
| Rank | Blog | Total Shares | FB Engagements |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | https://www.robinsharma.com/ | 45,849 | 42,366 |
| 3 | https://startwithwhy.com/ | 82,066 | 37,543 |
| 1 | https://leadershipfreak.blog/ | 117,564 | 29,081 |
| 10 | http://go.johnmaxwell.com/ | 33,588 | 25,912 |
| 2 | https://georgecouros.ca/ | 110,842 | 24,842 |
| 11 | https://growingleaders.com/ | 30,243 | 21,467 |
| 5 | https://michaelhyatt.com/ | 47,638 | 18,111 |
| 4 | https://www.ccl.org/ | 67,712 | 15,725 |
| 19 | https://www.joangarry.com/ | 17,610 | 15,219 |
| 25 | https://disneyinstitute.com/blog/ | 12,803 | 8,877 |
 | Most shares on LinkedIn |
| Rank | Blog | Total Shares | LinkedIn Shares |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | https://leadershipfreak.blog/ | 117,564 | 87,383 |
| 4 | https://www.ccl.org/ | 67,712 | 52,704 |
| 3 | https://startwithwhy.com/ | 82,066 | 49,274 |
| 14 | https://marlagottschalk.wordpress.com/ | 24,389 | 24,318 |
| 6 | https://www.hrbartender.com/ | 46,926 | 23,269 |
| 13 | https://www.briantracy.com/ | 25,404 | 22,273 |
| 16 | https://leaderchat.org/ | 23,075 | 21,343 |
| 5 | https://michaelhyatt.com/ | 47,638 | 17,970 |
| 8 | https://www.lollydaskal.com/ | 42,268 | 17,846 |
| 9 | https://www.skipprichard.com/ | 38,777 | 16,515 |
 | Most shares on Pinterest |
| Rank | Blog | Total Shares | Pins |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | https://leadershipfreak.blog/ | 117,564 | 4,547 |
| 2 | https://georgecouros.ca/ | 110,842 | 2,669 |
| 21 | https://www.franksonnenbergonline.com/ | 15,540 | 1,603 |
| 9 | https://www.skipprichard.com/ | 38,777 | 1,578 |
| 13 | https://www.briantracy.com/ | 25,404 | 983 |
| 11 | https://growingleaders.com/ | 30,243 | 749 |
| 12 | https://seapointcenter.com/ | 27,775 | 584 |
| 6 | https://www.hrbartender.com/ | 46,926 | 582 |
| 27 | http://switchandshift.com/ | 10,578 | 565 |
| 44 | https://www.torbenrick.eu/ | 4,825 | 558 |
 | Most shares on Twitter |
| Rank | Blog | Total Shares | Tweets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | https://georgecouros.ca/ | 110,842 | 77,209 |
| 1 | https://leadershipfreak.blog/ | 117,564 | 22,462 |
| 6 | https://www.hrbartender.com/ | 46,926 | 21,987 |
| 8 | https://www.lollydaskal.com/ | 42,268 | 21,069 |
| 9 | https://www.skipprichard.com/ | 38,777 | 17,119 |
| 5 | https://michaelhyatt.com/ | 47,638 | 17,011 |
| 12 | https://seapointcenter.com/ | 27,775 | 11,286 |
| 15 | https://leadchangegroup.com/ | 23,418 | 11,192 |
| 17 | https://www.thindifference.com/ | 19,230 | 9,190 |
| 21 | https://www.franksonnenbergonline.com/ | 15,540 | 8,488 |
Out of the 100 blogs that made the list in 2018, these are the blogs that weren’t on the list in 2016/2017.
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