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The Carrot or the Stick?

There is a well-known truth that most business leaders get: bad ethics are bad for business. The reasons are as obvious as last week’s headlines: fines, investigations, remediations, and the like can take a huge toll on internal resources and external […]

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Reading Minds

  Compliance managers and leaders offer a common complaint in our roundtables: “no one really listens to us”. It would seem this isn’t imagined. Steven Cohen, Assistant Director of the SEC, said recently, “We are very mindful of the fact that compliance […]

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Why Whistleblowers Should Be Rewarded

In some ways, whistleblowers represent the ultimate fear within a company: an employee goes to a watchdog to report something unethical, illegal, or otherwise improper, and a legal and organizational battle begins that sucks away time and money, and damages […]

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5 Unintended Consequences of Growth-Minded Companies

 “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” – Milton Friedman  The vast majority of workers, managers, and company executives want to work for ethical organizations, and want to grow […]

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3 Major Mistakes Companies Make When Being Investigated

On Thursday, October 29th, a call was hosted by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) with Steven Cohen, Associate Director of the Securities and Exchange Committee (SEC). For over an hour, Mr. Cohen spoke about the role of […]

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Why Compliance Needs Marketing

One of the most frequently visited topics in the compliance space is how to build, and defend, the case for compliance resources. It’s an agenda item or topic of focus in nearly every conference, webinar list. or resource library out […]

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New Ways to Show Off the Value of Compliance

Join guest speaker Chris McClean, Vice President & Research Director at Forrester, for a live, interactive webinar on Tuesday, October 20th at 10am PT (1pm ET). Register now About the Webinar Compliance is suddenly hot news. With some high profile […]

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How To Be Heard

How to Be Heard

Even in today’s high-paced environment, compliance departments are too often viewed as a necessity somewhere along the lines of an insurance policy. You have to have one, sure, but the details don’t really matter all that much – until they […]

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Why Mitigation Should Be a Dirty Word

It used to be a compliance officer’s primary job could be boiled down to two words: risk mitigation. This was true of General Counsels, Chief Compliance Officers, Chief Legal Officers, and other C-level leaders. Mitigation (noun): 1. The act of lessening […]

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The Compliance Space Race

“It is imperative that we recognize today’s successes as a milestone toward advancing GRC maturity. This enables the organization to achieve greater efficiency, effectiveness and agility in broader business operations.” —Michael Rasmussen, Chief GRC Pundit – GRC 20/20 Last week, GRC […]

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The Hidden Reason Most Mergers & Acquisitions Fail

I’m in the world of tech and software, which is often a world of rapid growth and industry disruption. In fact that is often the point. Growth and innovation are usually followed by acquisitions and mergers of talent, capacities, and […]

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