22/05/2026
Most reputation problems don’t start where they show up. By the time they’re visible, they’ve already been in motion. Something was noticed earlier. It didn’t feel urgent. So it waited.
What gets underestimated is not visibility. It’s the delay between seeing something and deciding what to do about it.
That delay is where most damage begins.
https://www.shankarsoma.com/reputation-problems-dont-start-where-they-appear/
Reputation issues rarely begin when they become visible. They build earlier, in signals that were seen but not acted on. A practitioner’s perspective on how that gap forms.