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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.
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?
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.
