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Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Transforming Culture: Part 5 – Ongoing Monitoring and Continuous Improvement of Culture

Boeing is not the first company to find itself amid a massive scandal. You can think of Siemens’ bribery and corruption scandal, the VW emissions-testing scandal, the Wells Fargo fraudulent accounts scandal, or any other...more

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The Danger of a Hyper-Focused Sales Culture

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We all know that economic incentives are critical to promoting performance.  Going back to the days of Adam Smith, the U.S. economic growth is the result of a basic motivation – hard work can result in significant...more

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The Elements of Good Judgment: Part 3

Today, I conclude the topic of judgment for compliance professionals. I recently read a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article on the topic by Sir Andrew Likierman, entitled “The Elements of Good Judgment: How to Improve Your...more

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Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: The Blanched Soldier-Learning to Ask For Help

Many compliance professionals in the corporate world work long and it is hard to rise to the senior management level in their organizations. It takes SME, hard work and sometime propitious good fortune to get to the C-Suite...more

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What Happens When Managers Misbehave?

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Company managers are the lynchpin of a corporate compliance program. Without belaboring the Tinkers to Evers to Chance baseball analogy, a corporate culture of compliance requires an important information and accountability...more

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Connected Compliance

I recently had the chance to visit with Valerie Charles, the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at GAN Integrity, Inc. (GAN Integrity) about a subject that is fastly becoming one of the more topical conversations in the compliance...more

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Report on Whistleblower Reporting Systems-Key Findings and Implications

This week I am running a five-part podcast series for which I interviewed Dr. Kyle Welch on his recent paper, co-authored with Stephen Stubben, Associate Professor from The University of Utah, entitled “Evidence on the Use...more

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Lincoln and Transformative Leadership – Part II

When faced with a compliance issue or an obstacle you should endeavor to keep everything on an even keel and never let them see you sweat. ...more

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Scooby Doo and Curiosity in Compliance

I thought about the need for curiosity for a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) in the context of a 2016 New York Times (NYT) piece which profiled Soledad O’Brien, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Starfish Media Group, a...more

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Leadership Lessons from James Polk – Mind the Details but Don’t Take Your Eyes off the Goal

There were two economic issues that Polk accomplished which greatly furthered US economic interests. The first was the reduction of the Tariff of 1842. Polk directed Secretary of the Treasury Robert Walker to draft a lower...more

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Leadership Lessons from Abraham Lincoln

The leadership lessons from the race to the South Pole renewed my interest in leadership for the compliance practitioner. In a New York Times (NYT) article, entitled “Lincoln’s School of Management”, Nancy F. Koehn, a...more

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Leadership Lessons from Lawrence of Arabia

In this month of Oscar, I am continuing to explore leadership lessons which can be drawn from Best Picture winning movies. Today, I want to consider the leadership lessons which can be drawn from T. E. Lawrence, who was...more

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Passion for Baseball and Passion for Compliance

The only thing that’s worse than really hard work is really hard work on something you don’t love.” As a CCO or compliance professional you will never have the financial or head count resources you need. You will have to make...more

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Five Essential Steps to Improve Corporate Board Oversight and Support of Compliance

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Corporate boards need to devote more energy to oversight and improvement of corporate culture and compliance. Over the last ten years, we have witnessed corporate scandals and misconduct that could have been prevented or, at...more

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ISO 37001: Risk Assessments, Employees, and Due Diligence Requirements (Part IV of V)

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In Part IV of my series on ISO 37001, I examine requirements relating to risk assessments, design of policies and procedures, and due diligence requirements. Section 4.5 sets out requirements for conducting risk...more

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ISO 37001: Board, Top Management and Anti-Bribery Compliance Responsibilities (Part III of V)

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In Part III of my continuing series on ISO 37001, today I examine the board and top management’s respective responsibilities in the implementation and oversight of an anti-bribery management system....more

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