When career consultant Emily Bennington started researching her upcoming book on women’s career success, Who Says It’s A Man’s World: The Girls Guide To Corporate Domination, she came across an interesting theme: If the choice is between being respected and being liked, it’s better to err on the side of respect. “Your reputation is everything,” Jan Fields, a 35-year business veteran and the former president of McDonald’s, told her.
Bennington says corporate reputations are typically formed from a series of successive questions: Who is she? Do I like her? Is she capable? And can she lead a team? “When you have respect, you have the ability to make people galvanize around an idea,” she says.
However, while performance may help drive a positive professional reputation, Bennington says it’s the small day-to-day mistakes that undermine it. She outlines the most common (and gender-neutral) ways people “royally screw up their reputations.”
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