“The most valuable asset in the capitalist economy is not cash, stock or buildings, but trust.” Economist Intelligence Unit, Risk of Risks What would a serious blow to your company’s reputation cost? This was once a rather academic query–most organisations could afford to consign it to the back burner. Today […]
Tag: Reputational Risk
Reputation: perception or reality, does it really matter?
Does reputation really matter? Is this a will o’ the wisp? Quite simply, is reputation so intangible as to be irrelevant? These are no idle questions, as we watch the shredding of the reputations of such diverse organisations as the Bank of England, the BBC, most banks, the Catholic Church, […]
The hidden fears of big business: where next will the punishment boot land?
Naturally the fear of big business of punishment remains well-hidden from public view. Senior insiders seldom admit to anxiety yet it is there. Where next, they wonder, will the boot land for breaking rules; miss-selling, or other bad bit of behaviour far down the hierarchy? Quite simply: “how can we […]