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Leading Greats #145
The Reputation You Reinforced Without Noticing:
Ronnie Kinsey, MBA
December 30, 2025
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By the end of a long year, something subtle tends to happen at senior levels.
Work no longer arrives as a question.
It arrives as an assumption.
Requests come with an unspoken expectation already attached.
Timelines feel pre-decided.
Scope feels familiar, even when no one formally set it.
This is how reputation actually forms.
People noticed who would close gaps when roles blurred.
They noticed who would finish what others left undefined.
They noticed where work could land without risk.
Over time, those observations solidified into default behavior.
Not admiration. Not even dependence.
Something more practical than that. Predictability.
That predictability carries a cost few talk about.
Influence begins to show up later in the process.
Judgment is still respected, but it is applied to outcomes rather than direction. The work becomes cleaner. The leverage becomes thinner.
At the same time, certain things stop being questioned. Minor misalignments. Small overreaches. Work that technically belongs elsewhere.
Each instance feels too small to address. Taken together, they quietly redraw what others believe is reasonable to expect.
Eventually, the reputation stops reflecting who someone is at their best and starts reflecting what others find most convenient.
Nothing is broken. The direction has just shifted without being acknowledged.
As the year turns, the serious commitment is not self-improvement. It is correction.
Correction of when involvement begins.
Correction of what gets carried by default.
Correction of which expectations are allowed to survive another cycle.
Reputations do not change through any announcements.
They change when familiar patterns stop getting reinforced.
That is the work worth doing now.
I am excited for 2026. My wish is that you are also!
There is so much good work ahead. More to come on this.
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