Reputation: 'Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Reputation depends more on fulfilling what others expect of you than on keeping your own promises.
- In plain terms
- People judge you by how well you meet their expectations.
- What can you take from it?
- Manage expectations carefully to protect your reputation.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What expectations do you carry that you did not set yourself?
- How do you handle when expectations conflict with reality?
Another view
Sometimes meeting expectations is impossible regardless of effort.
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