It’s always useful to look at what your competition is doing. The same is true in drafting your code of conduct (or code of...
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Blogoversary!
Instead of substantive information, today’s post focuses on me and this website.
Compliance Building went public on February 12, 2009. Since then, it looks like I have managed to get out a blog post every business day. Sometimes, more than one.
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Proposed Amendments to Sentencing Guidelines
The United States Sentencing Commission has proposed some changes to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Of the eight changes, one should catch the eye of compliance professionals.
There is a proposed amendment to Chapter Eight of the Guidelines Manual regarding the sentencing of organizations, including proposed changes to §8B2.1 (Effective Compliance and Ethics Program) and §8D1.4...
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Dan Pink on the Surprising Science of Motivation
Dan Pink, at TED Global in July 2009, broke tasks, performance and rewards for performance into two groups. With complex problems, financial rewards do not impact performance and seem to dull creativity. Actually, they seem to deter performance. With a simple problem and a simple set of rules, then contingent motivations for performance (like...
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Clothing Drive
This ad induced a huge spit take. I had to wipe off my monitor. Plenty to learn in this video about incentives and unintended outcomes. You can see the obvious HR issues.
Bud Light | “Clothing Drive” commercial on YouTube
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Global Ethics Summit Update
Dow Jones and Ethisphere Institute are teaming up to present the 2010 Global Ethics Summit on February 23-24, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt New York City.
I will be attending, thanks to an offer from the event’s organizers. If you are interested in attending I can offer you a 15% discount on regular conference fees,...
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Have a Dream – Address at March on Washington August 28, 1963.
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’”
“Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and...
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SUPERfreakonomics and Compliance
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner are back putting the freak in economics. As they did in Freakonomics, SUPERfreakonomics uses economic analysis to give some insights into actual human behavior.
When the original Freakonomics came out it was very original. Since then other books have hit the mainstream trying to do the same thing,...
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Whales and Compliance
I was surprised to be thinking about compliance while I was reading about whales. Sure, I eat, drink and sleep compliance. But there are some lessons that compliance professionals can learn from the study of whales.
This came up while I was reading Watching Giants: The Secret Lives of Whales by Elin Kelsey.
My original interest...
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Perception, Dilbert and a Magical Management Necklace
Are your assumptions correct?
You get a new tool to help manage your processes and everything starts working better. Is everything actually working better? Or is the data just being manipulated to look better?
As is often the case, the pointy-haired boss can show us the problem.
Often the compliance officer is like the pointy-haired boss. Everyone...
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House Passes Far-Reaching Bill Tightening Financial Rules
Today, the House passed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 4173 ), a week after it was introduced.
It looks it is a mashup of other bills that were being tossed around in the House to regulate the financial industry. According to Carl Husle of the New York Times, “After...
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