Life can shoot an arrow of fire at you and ignite an emergency in your life, badly damaging your reputation. You didn't see it coming. You may not have caused it or fully contributed to it? How will you respond? How can you best respond?

Want to see what you might not otherwise see: opportunities and risks? Want the best ideas to win in your life, professionally and personal. Engage in thoughtful disagreement and radical transparency.

Intense emotions, consequences and punishment within a reputation crisis create pain yet if we respond best, there are benefits on the other side.

Many people do this and this decision-making negatively affects how people see them in their professional and personal relationships. It prevents connection, harms reputation. Prevents problem solving. Individuals do this, organizations do it. What is a wiser, more helpful, effective approach?

Our receptiveness to listening (skillfully) and exhibiting attention and empathy is a reputation builder. When we reject being informed or learning more we open ourselves up to different problems.

We make mistakes. We are in error at times with our judgment and behavior. It hurts our reputation. Yet when we choose to believe we have "done nothing wrong" and don't apologize, is that beneficial or detrimental to our character and reputation?

Problem solve professional and personal relationship conflicts, disputes and crisis fully now, no matter how much effort or how long it takes, to protect yourself later.

The absence of this mindset, skill, competency and character trait negatively affects our reputation. Developing it improves our wisdom, increases trust and further builds our reputation.

People believe that others will forget or forgive their cheating transgressions even if they little to nothing to make "right." This short podcast details how that isn't true.

Leaders don't always lead when significant problems develop or when scandal and crisis occur. There is opportunity however to lead when leaders won't.