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How to Build and Repair Your Reputation

Skip Prichard

Do you manage your company’s reputation? Why is it important to manage your reputation? Lida Citroen , an expert in the field of reputation management, has a resource to anyone who wants tips to build a reputation that can withstand negative influences and becomes stronger over time. Reputation is how you’re known.

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Do We Prefer Our Colleagues To Be Friendly Than Competent?

The Horizons Tracker

There was a particular focus given to the signaling of human capital, which is concerned with their competence and ability to do tasks well, and also their social capital, which concerns itself with things like one’s trustworthiness and friendliness.

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How Small Towns Can Support Aging In Place

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It’s also about relationships with other people, social capital and the possibilities of community participation.” “They have the time to volunteer, and they’re often influential people in the community who have a repository of knowledge about the town and can lend their advice and reputations to local projects.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

For example, he worked purposefully to fashion an image of himself as a hardworking, hands-on inventor (he once reportedly smeared soot on his hands and face before an interview to bolster that reputation). [1] Human capital: who you are as a leader of innovation . Social capital: who you know with key expertise and resources.

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Managing a Successful Career

Coaching Tip

Professor Wayne Baker in his book, "Achieving Success through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks" says, "There is deeply rooted myth in North American culture that shapes our behavior. Success is powered by three things: Know-how, a strong network of contacts, and your reputation.

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Do you hate networking?

Coaching Tip

They use their knowledge to earn trust and build their reputation within the company. Yet, how knowledge is shared is crucial in determining whether it serves to enhance the reputation of the person sharing it or not. . Effective corporate leaders are strategic in the way they share knowledge.

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Shaking up Yahoo is an effective change management strategy.

Coaching Tip

Yet, how knowledge is shared is crucial in determining whether it serves to enhance the reputation of the person sharing it or not. Increasing one's social capital is all knowing how to share knowledge so it not only adds value to the organization but also to your recognized worth within it.