
The Anatomy Of Relationship Capital
Relationship Capital (RC) is an industry standard of accounting for the quality of the trustworthiness between people.
Peer-to-Peer Interactions include:
- Commitment Feedback
- Appreciation
Individuals earn RC by fulfilling commitments and obtaining positive perceptions. They receive a Relationship Capital Point (RCP) for each fulfilled Commitment, and an RCP, or a fraction thereof, for each positive perception obtained. RCPs are deposited in an RC Account under the strict control of its owner entity.

The objectives of Relationship Capital (RC) are to provide a common vocabulary for relationship interactions and to account for these interactions as they occur. Accordingly, RC uses a “standard-in-the-cloud” platform to enable entities to engage in interactions and capture RCPs in near real time.
Benefits of Measuring Relationship Capital
Relationship Capital (RC) as an industry standard will be an important metric in distinguishing one leader from another and one organization from another. Quantifying the quality of trustworthiness amongst your team and with your stakeholders in this hyper-connected and transparent world is to be expected.

How you behave is as important to your business success as much as what products you create or services you deliver. By accounting for these commitments and perceptions you gain the following benefits:
- RC is a social & peer-to-peer reward for your stakeholders (i.e. employees, partners, suppliers and customers/clients) that motivates new levels of performance.
- RC quantifies the “Golden Rule”.
- Provides a real-time appraisal.
- Relationship Capital (RC) demonstrates the quality of character.
- Creates a point in time view of an entity’s (person, company, AND business group’s RC)
- Contributes to the creation of a real-time, dynamic, common global vocabulary to be user by all members of the community.
- Creates a social community of companies and individuals dedicated to the promotion and adoption Relationship Capital (RC) in their business interactions.
By leveraging industry standards of Relationship Capital (RC) we will provide business leaders more understanding of how to utilize these intangible assets of culture to meet and exceed expectations with all their stakeholders and that is good for business and the overall community.

Relationship Capital (RC) is Human
Being an industry standard, we all can participate in making RC the most emotional intelligent asset an individual can seek to earn. Whether it is Google, Facebook, Linkedin or some other corporation, capturing RC should be neutral ground and not under the control of one or a few powerful for-profit entities. Since man has come out of the caves, we have relied on others to make and keep promises. We as a social and digitally-connected tribe should be responsible for developing and enhancing the agreed-to standards of Relationship Capital (RC) for the greater good of the hyperconnected community. This asset is just too important to be influenced solely by profit-motive.
Relationship Capital (RC) is Generous
Relationship Capital (RC) is a social reward. It is earned. When individuals make commitments and fulfill them it is the obligation of the recipient of the fulfilled commitment and credit the keeper of the promise with RC. This is being generous.
Relationship Capital (RC) is Risky
The idea of individuals registering for a Relationship Capital Account (RCA) and volunteering to have their commitments and perceptions accounted for is a risky concept. How many people want to be transparent with their commitments and social behavior.
Relationship Capital is Change For The Better
The benefits of capturing and measuring RC would enable a transparent world by which people who keep their promises to others will stand out from the crowd. Performance and Virtue motivators together will be rewarded not just profit alone. Having a Do-The-Right-Thing Mindset is good for sustaining and growing a business today and is no longer unrealistically optimistic or Pollyannish. The traditional financial preeminent form of capitalism no longer effectively motivates high performance in our hyperconnected, transparent, and morally interdependent world.
Relationship Capital is Connection
The reality today is no man or woman succeeds by themselves (they never have). We are all connected and we need emotionally intelligent measures for the quality of those connections. Before you connect someone you do not know because they are not in the room with you or even in the same country, it is imperative that we have some “credibility reliability index” or CRI that can be of support.
Conclusion
The reality is that we have always judged people, products/services, and organizations. Now the combination of industry standards, technology, and data; we now can capture those judgments or perceptions out of our heads and on the Peer SaaS Platform for the benefit of the individual and the organization.
What do you think? We welcome your thoughts and feedback.
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Sources:
http://www.amazon.com/Standard-Trust-Leadership-Transforming-Relationship-ebook/dp/B00IK1T6Z6
