Practice question · Put in order
Order the typical arc of a corporate reputation crisis.
- Misaligned incentives quietly produce misconduct
- Years of rebuilding what days destroyed
- Denial, then the evidence wins
- Fines, resignations, and customer exodus
- A journalist or whistleblower surfaces it
Hints
- Reputation is built slowly and lost quickly.
- Recovery takes far longer than the collapse did.
Show the answer
- Misaligned incentives quietly produce misconduct
- A journalist or whistleblower surfaces it
- Denial, then the evidence wins
- Fines, resignations, and customer exodus
- Years of rebuilding what days destroyed
Why
Built in years, spent in days, rebuilt in decades, the asymmetry that makes reputation an asset class and prevention its only cheap insurance.
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