What Do You Want Your Credibility Based On?
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--Birju Pandya
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Apr 22, 2014

 

I was recently speaking with a young woman who spoke about one of her turning points in life. Graduating from Harvard, she asked her professor about various options in front of her. The professor said: "It comes down to this. What do you want your credibility to be based on? Your bank balance? Your Ivy League background? Your social network?" She thought about it for a second and countered, "What did you base your credibility on?" And he replied, "The moment. When you base your credibility on what's in front of you, in the here and now, generosity and kindness become the most important lever. And what you create is a very different web of relationship and a deep kind of resilience.

 

Posted by Birju Pandya on Apr 22, 2014


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