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Leadership and career
June 21, 2017

3 Strategies for Retaining Top Talent, Starting with Letting Them Breathe

What's the fastest way to lose your star talent? Drive your employees into the ground. Sure, "weekends at the office" persist in the corporate world. But in an age of always-connected-communication, is that the best strategy for attracting and keeping your stars while grooming a company's future leaders? Corporate leaders…
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Why You Need Compliance Expertise in the Boardroom
ComplianceLeadership and career
June 7, 2017

Why You Need Compliance Expertise in the Boardroom

We in the GRC community know the value of an empowered compliance function: a CCO with authority, sufficient resources and the ear of the top brass. And to further ensure compliance success, experts are now calling for compliance expertise in the boardroom. Companies who have a director on the board…
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Former Chief Compliance Officer Settles Personal Liability Suit with US Government – Decision Raises More
ComplianceLeadership and career
June 7, 2017

Settlement of Personal Liability Suit Against Chief Compliance Officer Raises Questions

  Personal liability has been a hot topic in the compliance profession for several years – and it got hotter recently when the former Chief Compliance Officer of MoneyGram settled a personal liability suit with FinCEN and the DOJ. Thomas Haider will pay $250,000 of the original $1 million fine…
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Leadership and career
May 24, 2017

How Companies Can Survive the Baby Boomer Brain Drain

The most senior engineer/accountant/practitioner in the department is retiring today. Co-workers wish her well, buy her lunch, sign her humorous greeting card… and jot down her phone number for the moments in the near future they will need her help. They hope she’ll answer when they call because if she…
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Compliance Grows Up
Leadership and career
May 23, 2017

Survey: Compliance Getting Bigger Budgets and More Board Access — But Same Worries About Personal Liability

Second annual survey shows lower, but still high, concern from compliance executives about personal liability May 22, 2017 – Chief Compliance Officers (CCOs) are less worried than they were a year ago about personal liability – likely a result of program improvements and increased independence and prominence of the compliance…
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Are compliance officiers spooked? new yorker cover
Leadership and career
May 22, 2017

Hey, CEOs: Is Your Compliance Officer Spooked by the Tone from the White House?

You're already familiar with the term "Tone at the Top" as it relates to the important role you have in charting the ethical course of your organization.  But how about the latest tone from the very top -- and by that I'm referring to whatever the latest news is from…
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Maurice Gilbert 0
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Leadership and career
May 22, 2017

Winning at All Costs

Big Boss offers a sales contest to increase the customer base. You overhear a colleague on the phone telling all his contacts about the contest and promising if they help him win, they can return their purchases after the contest is over, no questions asked. Your colleague doesn't win, so…
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Leadership and career
May 19, 2017

Boards and Cybersecurity: The Price of Convenience

Did you know there’s a glaring gap between board members’ diligence regarding cybersecurity – and board members’ understanding of cybersecurity? Admittedly, cyber issues are kind of a "new" thing. And board agendas are jam-packed these days. So if members lack knowledge or an appreciation of the complexity of cyber risk management, we…
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Leadership and career
May 12, 2017

The Harsher Realities of Gaining a Public Company Board Seat

After an overwhelming response to my recent blog “Top 7 Challenges for Director Candidates,” I wanted to share a few more insights for director candidates. As a board consultant who does director search and offers a coaching engagement to help first-time candidates with a "directorship strategy" to gain a public…
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Leadership and career
May 10, 2017

What is Your Ethical Culture?

This article was republished with permission from Tom Fox’s FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog. The indictments earlier this year of executives from Takata and Volkswagen roiled many in the business world and ethics and compliance arena. Coming on the heels of the Wells Fargo scandal, one might wonder how corporations can stop…
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