Fame is people knowing your name. Respect is people trusting it. Only one survives a bad week.

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

Recognition and trust get confused because they often arrive together. One is about how many people have heard of you, the other is about whether anybody would vouch for you when something goes wrong. Attention can be built in a month and it can leave about as fast. Trust takes years and it holds under pressure.

Ask which of the two you have been building lately. Then do one thing this week that only builds the second, like keeping a small promise nobody would have noticed you breaking.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Do people trust your name or just recognize it?

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