Do Organizational scars and stretch-marks last forever?

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Organizational scars, like bodily scars, are borne forever and affect us long after the causal events. This may seem very simplistic. But it is an important perspective for every business to recognise the persistently damaged areas of the organizational nervous system.

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Corporate Trust versus Social Media

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The explosion of Social Media based technology has seriously complicated the tasks of managing reputational risk and maintaining corporate trust. Without an adequate Social Media coping strategy, the perceived integrity of an organisation can be seriously compromised, globally, within hours.

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lost reputations are always given away

Reputations are never taken away

A good reputation is hard-won and easily lost. But the lost reputation has invariably been given away by the actions of the holder, rather than been taken away by somebody else.

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