Reputation

Food for Thought

The main idea behind Federal Express is prompt delivery of letters and packages. The company is know for its state-of-the-art package tracking system. Not having used express mail much myself, I wonder under what circumstances you would need to track a package if you were a customer. Is there a delay in package delivery sometimes? Do customers sometimes need an estimated time of arrival for a package or letter? With email and e-commerce so ubiquitous these days the composition of Fedexe's business must have changed from prompt delivery of documents to prompt delivery of consumer goods delivered over the internet. Has their reputation changed? What do you think?

Questions with Vocabulary

  1. What does the reputation of your company rest on?
  2. Can you name anything that's added to the reputation of your company recently?
  3. What kind of reputation do you personally try to establish with customers? What about your company?
  4. What kinds of reputations do you try to establish with your fellow employees? With your boss? What about reputations for:
  5. Certain employees or companies can get a bad reputation. What kinds of bad reputations are possible? Is it possible to restore a tarnished reputation? Get rid of a bad reputation?
  6. Can you think of certain events in the life of your company or your work life where your reputation was at stake?

Collocations:

  1. it will add to your reputation
  2. it will advance your reputation
  3. it will help build up your reputation
  4. they cultivated a reputation for cleanliness
  5. the incident has irrepariably damaged your reputation
  6. all these accusations have forced me to defend my reputation
  7. the scandal destroyed his reputation
  8. his reputation was diminished somewhat after the incident
  9. the successful business deals he put together enhanced his reputation
  10. being a newcomer to the field he he had to establish his reputation
  11. they gained a reputation for prompt service
  12. you must guard your reputation from people who want to attack you and destroy your reputation
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  13. I have taken certain steps to improve my reputation
  14. those accusations could injure or harm your reputation
  15. being the son of a successful doctor he felt pressure to live up to his family's reputation (or keep up the reputation)
  16. his reputation was unblemished, unassailable
  17. the firm had a well-established reputation they had built up over a hundred years
  18. he has a hard-earned reputation for providing good service
  19. his reputation is unrivalled in the field, there's really no one quite like him
  20. his reputation was at stake, if he failed no one would ever trust him again
  21. all his friends had a high reputation of him
  22. his name towered above the rest, he had a formidable reputation
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