Credibility

I watched a couple of good movies this weekend. One was the enemy of state, one time good watch and the other was scent of a woman. Beautiful movie!! Some of these movies inspire my thought process to enquire about life and do something larger than whatever I am doing now. Sadly the inspiration has been there too long in the mind and has been difficult to put in action
Enemy of state is a good action packed thriller but there was something I picked from there as well. Jon Voight when threatened by will smith and he possessing the tape says. I have seen men who commit heinous sexual crimes because the girl who reports is a call girl; I have seen men get away with murder as the only witness to crime is a history sheeter. Destroy a man’s credibility and his/ her words will no longer be credible in front of the jury. And there unable to find the tape he begins to destroy the credibility of will smith.

Credibility is a very strong perception to be managed in our work life and even otherwise. Why just restrict it to work life. If someone gives you his/ her word and you just know that this guy is so much credible that now this will happen as he/ she said how relaxed one will feel. It’s just so good. If a person with credibility of honesty does get into trouble someday I am sure he will not need a jury to prove himself. I have seen this happening with myself, my family we got into real trouble. And the trouble maker decided to hit on us by publicly ridiculing us and what save me or my family is the credibility which we have developed about our value system.

Great leaders are what they are because they are credible, they keep their words and never waiver from it. Waiver not just to be stubborn but do not waiver because of pressure or a need to avoid hard work or to run from the long route with a lot of difficult times. Buddha was credible and so was Gandhi and hence they could become the great leaders. They developed this credibility through integrity and trust on them came through their selfless actions.

Do you remember the story of the boy who for his own fun used to cry fox every time and when the real fox came, no one helped him. That is the power of credibility and one need to nurture it.
In any relationship credibility (similar to trust) develops over time. It is a result of repetitive processing of information in a certain pattern and unwavering action each time. The pattern which is what people begin to associate you with and that is the one may be believed to do every time in any situation.

In any relationship (work, personal, etc) it is a foundation. Be it a relationship of leader -followers or be it between husband-wife, friends - credibility is what will differentiate; destroy it through your actions and you destroy the relationship.

I will come back on scent of a woman later!!