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Drawing on over 30 years of professional experience navigating complexity at the intersection of leadership, integrity, and resilience, I offer strategic insights, sharp reflections, and actionable impulses. This blog does not concern itself with trends. It is about identifying what truly matters when the sea gets tougher, decisions become challenging and the stakes are high, and when silence is not an option. For leaders who value integrity, clarity and transparency over noise and impact over vague intention.
Remote work: frowned upon – imposed – valued risk
Risk frowned upon yesterday – today a forced measure – tomorrow a strategic success factor. Yes, this is remote work. Whether from the home office, think tank, co-working or the desert island. Many of us are now forced to work differently than before. Yes, we are isolated from our former live and behavior.
Partners in Crime in Times of Crisis
Incorrect communication can lead to crises. When we talked about crises last year, it was especially those caused by malicious intent. Social engineers, hackers, fraudsters, narcissists and other perpetrators. Today, all over the world, we are talking about a virus that is leading us into crisis. Covid-19.
Risk Corona – panic or strategic prudence?
It can go that fast. Suddenly the view of something is different than a few weeks ago. An issue that has now reached everyone in Switzerland at the latest: the danger of infection with the corona virus Covid-19. What does this risk mean? Is it really „only“ about the infection? Not at all!
Why you should become a taboo breaker for your safety!
Shall we become taboo breakers? One of my clients did. He broke the taboo. For the benefit of his client and their prevention. We became victims of a white collar crime. A great example of learning from delicate situations and passing on what we’ve learned.
Risk – a question of tolerance
One of the most frequently misused and misunderstood terms. Life is a risk. Entrepreneurship, business, politics, sustainability, sports – there is no area of our existence that does not involve one risk or another. Value-free.
Cyberspace: the motive as origin?
More meaningful and practical than trying to pigeonhole all criminals in cyberspace is to look at the DNA of perpetrators accentuated by their motives, to understand it and to deal with the findings individually. However, one possible motive alone does not make a white-collar criminal. We know that.
Happy Valentine – Ladies & Gentlemen, don’t shoot yourself offside!
A subject very close to my heart. „Leadership“ and „Commitment“ in the sense of: how do I lead myself in my professional environment, everyday situations and under pressure. Imagine the following situation
What about your security in the territory of “Cyber”?
When we talk about cyber security, this includes protection in the social structures of the Internet. It is about protecting people from the violation of physical or mental integrity. Accordingly, security is a broader view than crime. Cybersecurity encompasses more than cybercrime.
Present and Future: Cyberspace territory
The first steps towards the territory that we call cyberspace were the theories and findings of Lewis Mumford in 1934, an American sociologist who was deeply involved with the subject of „technology and civilization“.
The 5 phases of the FraudAidKit™ framework
Are you also a big fan of relevant and straightforward applicable tools? If so, then this practical example from one or our clients could support you during your daily work of managing risks.
How savvy is your compliance program? Part 2
The updated release of the DOJs “evaluation of Corporate Compliance Program” JM 9-28.800 can be seen as a great tool. In our last published article we started with the introduction of the DOJs release focusing on the overview. Now, we go into the details of the key risk areas.
How savvy is your compliance program? Part 1
The updated release of the DOJs “evaluation of Corporate Compliance Program” can be seen as a reminder. In a good way – because a lot of Corporate Compliance Program implementation goals are currently postponed due to the actual.
Desasters – the perfect storm
But only perfect for fraudsters and not for the individuals and the entire economy. The vulnerability of each is abused and does not yet have reached the peak. Being absorbed with the disaster itself leaves us putting fraud to the bottom of our priorities.
Myth no. 1: Crisis communication cannot be practiced enough
You know the experiment where one person starts with a sentence and whispers into the neighbour’s ear and the neighbour passes on what he has heard until this has passed through the circle of umpteen participants? What comes out?
Crisis Modus behaviour: How adaptors win
While writing these paragraphs, we are in the middle (in my opinion rather at the beginning!) of the worldwide pandemic of COVID19. Countries are in different stages of their lockdown and the supporting measurements. The Economy is shot down and the economic price will be paid over the next decades.
There is no vaccination to the risks of cyber, fraud and non-compliance
Board of directors are not only responsible for overseeing management strategy, but also for their risks management which is significant in these fast-evolving times – especially under the actual circumstances of the global crisis. The Pharma industry works for a vaccination against COVID-19 and immunity tests. All great. For cyber-, non-compliance and fraud-risks there will never be a vaccination. Nor are we immune to these risks.
Beyond crisis: The overseen (fraud) vulnerability
We humans open to manipulation. The higher the pressure – internal or external, the greater the diversity and the bigger the impact of the various biases. It would be naïve to believe that the current COVID-19 pandemic will not cause any damage in this respect.
Cyber Security meets Human factor – Technology is not responsible for everything!
Our vulnerability is more evident across the board than decades before. In recent years, it has only affected the “others”. Now it affects us all. The solution lies within human beings. As it usually does. Even an effective culture for enterprise-wide cyber security cannot be created with technology alone.
