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A bad reputation has far reaching impacts on us than we would have cared to notice. Just because you might not immediately quantify the value you are losing doesn't mean you are not losing a thing. Here are just a few things we stand to lose when we create a bad reputation.
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Man is a social animal. I once saw someone derive from a pencil, hundreds of direct and indirect relationships attached to making that pencil. They said that even those people who didn't like each other contributed to the manufacturing of the pencil. However, we do relate closely based on each other's reputation. If we have a bad reputation, we have messed up our relationships. Listen to this.
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At times, we take lightly the bad reputation we create around us because we have not quantified in numbers of revenue how much that behavior will cost us. There will always be a downside to a bad reputation, all the time. When you put the numbers to it, you realize just how much you are losing. Listen to this.
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Merit is something we tout a lot. In an ideal world, merit will take you places. However, there is something much more powerful than merit and that is favor that gives you access. Some might say that it is unfair to have favor over merit...but in reality, we all operate more with favor than with merit. Listen to this.
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What you see is not what you get when it comes to reputation. Reputation has a connection to what we do not see, the roots. These can either be good roots or bad roots depending on your actions. Here is why when you lose trust, it's not the only thing you are losing.
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As you might now know, a reputation, even though a qualitative thing, always will lead to quantitative value if well crafted and maintained. It will also lead to quantitative loss of value if it is not well maintained. That's the great value of a reputation. We need to understand it more. Listen to this.
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When all is said and done, one does life ostensibly through their reputation. The sum total of my success is the average of the connections that I have made through the reputation that I have kept. Here is how we can maintain a good reputation in summary.
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We keep a reputation by being consistent in keeping a promise that we are known for, and the integrity that we stand for. A reputation is a massive asset and tool for our progress and growth. That's why we need to keep it by staying constant in purpose. Listen to this.
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The opposite is true. When you are found out in your misdemeanours, the worst you can do is try to argue your way out of it. Admitting our wrongs might be a very hard thing to do on our part, but it goes a very long way in helping salvage a broken reputation. Listen to this.
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When creating a SWOT Analysis, we normally ask this question: What could happen to your business if it grew ten times overnight? Whatever the case, that growth could have been caused by a great reputation. That reputation could be caused by great standards you maintained. So what do we do? Listen to this.
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As you already know, a reputation is not something that comes to us arbitrarily. We have a part to play. All humans have a reputation to build and to keep. It's primarily how we interact in life at all fronts. That's why doing this is detrimental to our reputations. Listen to this.
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Obviously, we are human and thus, we fail to honor our word and our promises for reasons beyond ourselves and for personal reasons. It doesn't matter though, because our reputations are on the line whatever the case. Here's how to recover.
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People take us at our word. They create expectations based on our word. It becomes a promise and is always given the benefit of doubt. This then is directly tied onto our reputation. If we dared break our word, there goes our reputation. Listen to this.
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We do life based on the values we espouse in it. Even if you and I might not have any documentation ot our values, we still strongly operate through our value systems. Our values then become a promise we send to the world that govern the expectations others have over us, thus our reputations. Listen to this.
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A reputation is a major asset. To some people, it is much more valuable than tangible or even liquid assets in that it is the one that brings in others.
We are all susceptible to getting our reputations spoilt. Here are two things we should be watchful over as far as our reputations are concerned.
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We do it daily but we are not so cognizant of the thing that it does to our reputations. You see, our reputation is perceived by others depending on how much they experience us. So if you keep doing this one thing, you are diminishing your reputation badly.
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There is a very steep price to pay for a spoilt reputation. Even so, the cost of keeping a reputation in play and with good momentum is substantive, but it doesn't come even close to the price of a bad reputation. Here is what we stand to lose with a bad reputation. Listen to this.
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They sound like they are the same, don't they? Actually, one is the result of the other. One is active and the other is a state. Clout is a very important aspect of our lives. If we have a soiled reputation, then we lose it. Listen to this.
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There are some advantages of a good reputation that cannot really be quantified. They are beautiful. They fight for you. They clear the way for you. They do the donkey work for you, just because you have a good reputation. That's what you stand to lose with a bad reputation. Listen to this.
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We already know that a bad reputation is not desirable. Even though we might not know it, there are always consequences to it. Reputations are always about what people perceive. Therefore, if you have a bad reputation, this is the first thing that will be the casualty. Listen to this.
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A reputation is something we have to think seriously about. It is currency. It is an asset. If I have a bad reputation, whether I caused it or detractors caused it, I stand to lose momentarily or eternally. Listen to this.
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As long as we are humans, we are going to have a reputation. As long as we have a reputation, it is always going to be exposed to being soiled. There are two major ways that a reputation can be spoilt. Listen to this.
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The world today has billion dollar companies leveraging on one thing: People seeking reputations. Perhaps one of the greatest epidemics of our time today is people doing just about anything for a reputation, and leaders failing to do the right thing for the same reason. Listen to this.
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A reputation is an asset. A very big asset especially in this day and age. Humans are social beings. The first thing we do before we engage is to subtly determine the reputation of the person we want to engage with first. These are the 7 reasons why we should care about our reputations.
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Reputations are fickle. When we are doing life with people or even when we are doing business, there is the temptation to forget about our reputations and just look for the sale. So we say "I am going to close this sale" and we do whatever it takes, at the expense of our reputations. Here's why we should play the long game.
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I have always known that in life if you do things so that you get favored, you risk becoming an impostor or a virtual prisoner to other people. There is a better way to get favored and it has something to do with having a good reputation. Listen to this.
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We are social beings. Virtually everything we do is connected to our reputation. That's why we cannot run our reputations on autopilot. We need to be careful about them, create them, and protect them. Listen to this.
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Noting that as humans, we thrive by getting help from each other, it is therefore imperative that we take good care of our reputations as we do business. Nobody wants to be connected to a person of bad repute. Here is one more reason we should care about our reputations.
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We are keen on our reputation by wanting to air our opinions on divisive hot topics of the day. You all remember what Jussie Smollett did some years back. The interesting part was Steve Harvey and TD Jakes jumping to comment about it before it was verified to be the truth. What can we learn? Listen to this.
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We are all affected one way or another by our reputation. As humans, we are social beings. In other words, what we do largely is predicated on how we relate and are perceived by others. Here is one potent reason we need to care about our reputations.
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There will either be a positive or a negative reputation. At the end of the day, reputation is a result. It is a byproduct. It is something that sneaks up on us when we are busy and immersed in selflessly doing what we think matters to us. Listen to this.
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It is very interesting to note that we should not do life ostensibly so that we can have good reputations. That cannot be our focus. However, we still need to be aware and to care about the reputations that we are creating and keeping. Listen to this.
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All of us will at some point in life or another grapple with either feelings of inferiority or superiority. No matter what we do, at the end of the day we will have a reputation, whether good or bad. Should we care about this reputation? Listen to this.
