Future Here Now: Reputation is everything

Reflection

As I reshare and re-examine the interview I posted earlier this week on the rehabilitation of the Dayton Arcade with Amy Walbridge, I've been thinking about how her persistence, her steadiness, and her integrity over the course of the years of that process has made much more of a difference in that work actually being completed than any of us might realize at first glance, including Amy. In the video, she is very characteristically decentering herself and pointing to the team effort, which is both completely in character and certainly appropriate to a very complex process with a lot of people and organizations involved.

(Here's the video:)

But I encountered a situation today where an agency not all that unlike Amy's has failed to demonstrate that kind of integrity, and you can see and feel the difference.

When you're leading or administering a complex project or program, you are by necessity relying on the trust of the other organizations and people that you need in order to make that project or program happen.