Day #809 - Reputation
Stories of Self
What is your reputation?
I don’t mean what is the ‘story’, but what actually is it?
Our relationship with our reputation is varied: it’s a type of reflection that can operate independently of where we stand. Our reputation can enter the room before we are in the building, and can stay in the room after we have gone home.
It’s not simply a shadow: it carries power, exerts force. People can be prompted to act because of it’s presence, even when you are not there. And it can act upon people to stop them doing things too. And of course our reputation is contextualised by our formal power, and the broader networks of reputational authority that sits around both us and others.
In the core Social Leadership NET Model we consider that ‘Reputation’ is the foundation of ‘Social Authority’, and Social Authority is the direct source of your power as a Social Leader.
Use your sixty seconds today to consider this: what is your reputation. And are you always aware how it acts when you are not there
Social Leadership is a form of leadership held at the intersection of systems.
