REPUTATIONAL CAPITAL
Posted on September 30, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Reputation comes in many forms. It can be, most obviously, the wordof- mouth messages that others receive and pass along about you. It can also be the proxies of your past achievements, like your resume or your past salary. Almost everyone can remember a time when, confronted with the knowledge of what someone they have [...]
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Posted on September 29, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Dave Chiu and Didier Hilhorst, young master’s students at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, an Italian nonprofit organization dedicated to interactive design, recently developed a dream project they called RentAThing. A small, handheld device resembling an iPod, RentAThing “is a tool for negotiation that provides additional information about the reputation of the parties involved and [...]
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Posted on September 28, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
In a fractured world, reputation is also continuity. When people went to work for a company at an early age and had a reasonable expectation that they would continue to work for that company until they retired, public reputation, while valuable for promotion and advancement, was not as critical to career. The embrace of the [...]
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Posted on September 27, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Reputation is another of those soft things, like trust, that everyone wants but few think about how to get. For much of our history, the importance of reputation was largely self-evident. When most people lived in smaller, semiclosed communities, the proximity and familiarity of other people placed social pressure upon us to conduct ourselves within [...]
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Posted on September 26, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Over the centuries, Sephardic Jews, who after the Spanish Inquisition spread throughout Europe, where they were barred from most forms of economic activity save for moneylending, came to dominate the diamond trade. Diamonds had three things going for them that made them attractive to a transient community: They were highly valuable, universally desired, and easily [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
On a traffic-free walking street in the Belgian city of Antwerp, a man pulls his long black coat more tightly around him to keep out the cold chill of the winter wind that blasts off the cobblestone street like a wave cracking against the rocks. As the wind gusts again, he quickly grabs his black [...]
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Posted on September 24, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
At first blush, “trust, but verify” seems oxymoronic. If you are verifying, doesn’t that mean you’ve stopped trusting? Let’s work through an example using employee expense accounts and to see if this is true. (Not all of us make this kind of decision, but it provides a good example for anyone working within a team.) [...]
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Posted on September 24, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
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Posted on September 23, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
James Paul Lewis Jr. was a trusted man. A devout Mormon and churchgoer, for nearly 20 years he ran Financial Advisory Consultants (FAC) from its offices in Orange County, California, where he administered two investment funds aimed at those looking for a high rate of return on their retirement funds. His promotional material promised up [...]
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Posted on September 22, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
I asked Jeff for a specific example of how he planned to restore the market’s trust in Pfizer. “Although the patients are the ultimate consumers of our drugs, a lot, if not most, of our products around the world are being paid for, to a large extent, by governments, insurance companies, or other commercial entities,” [...]
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