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Food for thoughts
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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.
Back to the roots – economic crime and non-compliance
A German proverb sums up in a nutshell what is reluctantly heard in connection with economic crime and non-compliance: „Where there’s planning, there’s chipping. It could also be said that „the end cures the means“. How do these two colloquial proverbs behave in the context of the life cycle of white-collar crime?
Cheeky badgers, false vipers and thieving magpies
Again and again I am asked why I do what I do. Clear as day. The topic „integrity“ has occupied me since childhood. In very different forms. Integrity is one of my most important values. My „why“.
Protect your business and your data from «online fraud»
No, Fraud does not stop at the online world either. The preventive measures in the sense of hurdles must be drawn up by yourself. How? Simple and inexpensive! One of my esteemed customers is the reason why I am taking up this topic today.
Writing blockade under investigative time pressure?
The clock’s ticking. Against us. At least that’s how it feels for the team when it comes to reporting in an investigation. Why are you talking about the report before we even investigated the subject? Quite simply: because I have the goal in mind.
Cross-generation teams with foresight
„How long do you intend to work in your law firm?“ I asked this question a colleague, just over 55 – belonging to the so-called Baby Boomers. No idea, no plan. The answer was astonishing. Especially because I just listened to the wonderful experience of her last 3-month sabbatical.
Let’s use the uncanny potential – Fraud Awareness Week 2019
Uncanny? Only for those who still don’t care about integrity. Potential? For those who are even more convinced after last week that sensitization is the most effective form of prevention. Each individual can contribute to this. And that is why it is so important to me!
Fraud Examiner – Profession? Vocation!
There is this question, which comes up again and again and especially in the last weeks when the workshops, trainings and speeches about non-compliance, crisis, white-collar crime have become more frequent in my calendar: What does a fraud examiner exactly o?
Alibi: Code of conduct
We call it code of conduct (CoC) – this meaningful paper (or file in this day and age of digitalisation), which is intended to regulate our actions and give us security in this regard.
Why regular writing makes you more successful
Success suits you well. Everyone. Especially if you are concerned about topics such as cyber attacks, fraud, white-collar crime, compliance violations, money laundering, reputation, IT security, sanctions or similar taboo and crisis topics. For your company or your customers.
Pitfalls In Ethics and Integrity
There are plenty of reasons that even organisations with great intention struggle with integrity issues but there are a few pitfalls which could be eliminated to start with.
Foster Corporate Integrity
There are many creative and successful elements which can be used to implement a powerful code of conduct.
Why integrity is about dreams
A practical way to anchor integrity as the roots of integrity goes back to the individual value system of each single person involved in the system we take into consideration.
Risk – Identification – a question of diversity, communication, and guts.
The risk identification process could be described as the art of understanding your business. Do you?
Unplanned Novel Risks
How you can train your capabilities of identifying novel risk – no matter whether you have to do it as an individual for your family and friends or as a professional for your own business or for the one you take care of?
How to manage the decreasing willingness to comply
Have you ever thought about what “crisis fatigue” could mean in the corporate world? Not only on individual level? What I still see is, the risk of having to many rules to comply with which are not effectively implemented.
Is compliance possible in crisis?
As a result of the current crisis, priorities have been redefined – into the so-called crisis mode of those responsible. Consciously or unconsciously. There is a strong suspicion that this happened unconsciously in many organisations, which increases the risk of misallocation.
The role of psychology in the territory of cyberspace
No matter what kind of excuses are found – the human factor remains the biggest security gap in the cyberspace – therefore it is our biggest success factor
The myth of «Code of Conduct» in the cyber territory
How do you behave when they enter the internet? Aka Cyber Space? Do you change your identity and above all your behaviour within seconds?
