Kiran Jonnalagadda’s Blog

Friday, January 30, 2004

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  jayasankarvs — Jan 30, 2004 9:43:03 AM — # ↩

  Reputations are created from rumours.
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  brainz — Jan 30, 2004 10:15:55 AM — # ↩

  Why did you get the doubt?
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    Kiran Jonnalagadda — Jan 30, 2004 11:19:15 AM — # ↩

    Re:
    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. You were sleeping while I was philosophising.
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  mannu — Jan 30, 2004 10:17:43 AM — # ↩

  What people think of you in terms of expectations. Your reputation--good or bad--is what people expect of you.
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  harish_an — Jan 30, 2004 10:39:26 AM — # ↩

  reputation could be created by
  perspiration, admiration, adoration,expectation,
  and/ or
  citation, decoration,(mis/)information
  and/or
  precipitation(fear), negation, villification
  well guess am just going way off
  if one is intending to build up a reputation(vis-a-vis being "born with it") it needs some hard work, credibility, ethics and stuff. frankly depends on the target group too. business, politics, or life in general may hve different factors to be weighed and built accordingly
  
  
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  quizling — Jan 30, 2004 10:43:48 AM — # ↩

  Looking for one? There are lots going... um... cheap. :)
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  tariquesani — Jan 30, 2004 10:58:34 AM — # ↩

  What is reputation?
  A general collective opinion that people hold about you.
  
  How is it created?
  By being around for long enough.
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  rileen — Jan 30, 2004 11:08:55 AM — # ↩

  Others' opinion of you in a very generalized sense; best not to bother yourself over it.
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  swatisani — Jan 30, 2004 11:59:50 AM — # ↩

  reputation is something you can do without - but you still want to have one!!
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    tariquesani — Jan 31, 2004 4:13:15 AM — # ↩

    Re:
    Oh! you mean something like sex?
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  veenven — Jan 30, 2004 1:48:27 PM — # ↩

  how is it created????
  
  If you are asking this question, you are pretty much beyond creating one :p
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  vighy — Jan 30, 2004 3:37:13 PM — # ↩

  Good question :D
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  contentedbloke — Jan 31, 2004 2:24:06 AM — # ↩

  If you're looking for a serious reply, here's my take on it: I would say that reputation is quite important, from a business and personal point of view. Employers rarely like to hire a person of known "ill-repute", neither do financiers want to trust a person who does not have a good reputation. It is well known in academics that "trust" reduces transaction costs, and trust is associated with reputation. Of course, what exactly constitutes ill-repute differs greatly from situation to situation. Having a reputation for being brutally straightforward may not make a person suitable for policitics, but would hold him in high stead in areas like the judiciary where credibility is more important than diplomacy.
  
  However, I disagree with most people who say that we should not be concerned with reputation. We should not overemphasise it (it should develop naturally from our behaviour), neither should we be foolish enough to completely disregard it.
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  tsk1979 — Jan 31, 2004 12:54:07 PM — # ↩

  What is reputation?
  

  
  The trust people are ready to put in you. Your image. Its usually about a particular thing. For example you may have an excellent reputation when it comes to returning loans but you may have an extremely bad reputation about finishing projects on time.
  

  
  How is it created?
  

  
  Sometimes with rumours. Sometimes by your actions. It is created by how others perceive you to be. For example the questions you ask may make your reputation for a particular set of people that you ask extrememly deep questions, while another set may perceive you to be someone who likes throwing vague questions for no reason at all ;-). So perception leads to a particular reputation.
  
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  avelin — Jan 31, 2004 4:49:20 PM — # ↩

  Are you talking about reputation from your own perspective or of other people's reputation?
  
  Reputation is a shortcut for evaluating a person or company. A shortcut, because evaluating it in terms of real criterias would be a tremendous task (in terms of time and effort). Thus, for some (or most?) people reputation is the way to go. But shorcuts also are effective. (Except when you're an enterpreneur, I guess, i.e. that type of enterpreneur who actually builds something)
  
  Reputation today is used as a vehicle by people who know psychological techniques to influence people's behaviours and thoughts (this indeed seems to be extremely significant in societies like the US, just think of advertising). At the same time it is difficult to say, if it is not the other way around: The way we think and guide our thoughts is what matters and guides us anyway. So this by itself is nothing special, except when it is done for purely commercial purposes. i.e. selling a product.
  
  Reputation also is about power. The more powerful party can't tolerate another party of a similar reputation beside it. If things are judged and determined by reputation criterias it often is just enough to damage the reputation, even just by prohibiting the usage of elements it consists of (so not even the 'imaginary' reputation needs to be a target).
  
  It is best to forget about reputation and do and pursue what deems right, but this is not always possible.